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- Irritability - n. - The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
- Irritability - n. - 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.
- Irritability - n. - A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
- Irritability - n. - The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
- Catelectrotonus - n. - The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
- Sedative - a. - allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
- Anelectrotonus - n. - The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
- Sedative - n. - A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.