IRRITABILITY
\ˌɪɹɪtəbˈɪlɪti], \ˌɪɹɪtəbˈɪlɪti], \ˌɪ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ə_b_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of IRRITABILITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
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an irritable petulant feeling
By Princeton University
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a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
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an irritable petulant feeling
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.
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A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
By Oddity Software
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A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.
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A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
By Noah Webster.
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The quality of being easily irritated: the peculiar susceptibility to stimuli possessed by the living tissues.
By Daniel Lyons
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Power of receiving external impressions or stimuli, and reacting to them, inherent in living matter.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A power, possessed by all living, organized bodies of being acted upon by certain stimuli, and of moving responsive to stimulation. It is the ultimate vital property.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Susceptibility to stimulation.
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A condition of mind which manifests itself by fretfulness, faultfinding, complaining about trifles, or of things which are imaginary; impatience.
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Susceptibility of the whole or a part of the body to irritating influences.
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Of Brown, the activity or excitability of the muscular system.
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In pathology, a morbid state of a part characterized by irritation; also the capability which tissue elements possess of undergoing nutritive and formative changes on the application of a physical or chemical stimulus.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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