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Definition of Irritability

1. Noun. An irritable petulant feeling.

2. Noun. Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.

3. Noun. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger. "His temper was well known to all his employees"

Definition of Irritability

1. n. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

Definition of Irritability

1. Noun. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. ¹

2. Noun. (physiology) 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. ¹

3. Noun. (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Irritability

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Medical Definition of Irritability

1. 1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. 2. 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; especially, the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibres, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility. 3. A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation. Origin: L. Irritabilitas: cf. F. Irritabilite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irritability

irrigated irrigates irrigating irrigation irrigation ditch irrigational irrigations irrigator irrigators irriguous

irrisible irrision irrisions irrisory irritabilities irritability (current term) irritable irritable bowel disease irritable bowel syndrome irritable breast

irritable colon irritable heart irritable mood irritableness irritablenesses irritably irritainment irritancies irritancy irritant

Literary usage of Irritability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"This view of the gradual decline of muscular irritability after somatic death is concurred in by physiologists generally. Certain researches in which the ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"increase and decrease of irritability are most marked in the immediate neighbourhood of the electrodes, but spread for a considerable distance in each ..."

3. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"The irritability of a nerve, on the other hand, is not manifested by any ... irritability of Sensitive Fibres. The irritability of sensitive nerve fibres is ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"After a further interval we should find the irritability still further diminished: even very strong shocks would be unable to evoke contractions as large as ..."

5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1867)
"MUSCULAR irritability is commonly recognized and defined as that property of muscular tissue by virtue of which it contracts under the influence of stimuli. ..."

6. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"As the irritability lessens, the threshold stimulus must necessarily be higher. The height of the threshold is therefore a measure of irritability. ..."

7. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"This irritability of the bladder often arises from local causes, as a stone, cancer, or tumors forming on the inside, all which produce irritability of this ..."

8. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"This view of the gradual decline of muscular irritability after somatic death is concurred in by physiologists generally. Certain researches in which the ..."

9. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"increase and decrease of irritability are most marked in the immediate neighbourhood of the electrodes, but spread for a considerable distance in each ..."

10. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"The irritability of a nerve, on the other hand, is not manifested by any ... irritability of Sensitive Fibres. The irritability of sensitive nerve fibres is ..."

11. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"After a further interval we should find the irritability still further diminished: even very strong shocks would be unable to evoke contractions as large as ..."

12. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1867)
"MUSCULAR irritability is commonly recognized and defined as that property of muscular tissue by virtue of which it contracts under the influence of stimuli. ..."

13. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"As the irritability lessens, the threshold stimulus must necessarily be higher. The height of the threshold is therefore a measure of irritability. ..."

14. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"This irritability of the bladder often arises from local causes, as a stone, cancer, or tumors forming on the inside, all which produce irritability of this ..."

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