Definition of Excitability

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

Exact synonyms: Irritability
Generic synonyms: Reactivity, Responsiveness
Derivative terms: Irritable

2. Noun. Being easily excited.
Exact synonyms: Excitableness, Volatility
Generic synonyms: Emotionalism, Emotionality
Specialized synonyms: Boiling Point
Derivative terms: Excitable, Excitable, Volatile

Definition of Excitability

1. n. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Definition of Excitability

1. Noun. The state of being excitable ¹

2. Noun. A measure of how easy something is to excite ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excitability

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Excitability

1. 1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes. 2. The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. Origin: Cf. F. Excitabilite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitability

excise-tax
excise tax
excised
excises
excising
excision
excision biopsy
excision repair
excisional
excisional biopsy
excisionase
excisions
excitabilities
excitability (current term)
excitable
excitable area
excitable cell
excitable gap
excitableness
excitablenesses
excitably
excitant
excitants
excitate
excitation
excitation contraction coupling
excitation energy
excitation function

Literary usage of Excitability

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

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Mechanical excitability of Nerves and Muscles A blow on a muscle with a percussion ... This mechanical excitability is increased in cachectic states (eg, ..."

2. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"(3) Index of excitability change. (4) Apparatus for altering temperature. ... Influence of temperature upon excitability of voluntary muscle. ..."

3. An Outline of psychobiology by Knight Dunlap (1917)
"TONUS AND excitability. The constant stimulation which is supplied by the nerves in the normal body keeps the muscles in a state of normal contraction ..."

4. Alcohol, the Sanction for Its Use: Scientifically Established and Populary by J. Starke (1907)
""The diminution of the excitability for external irritation and impressions. ... We must explain first what is meant by excitability of the central nervous ..."

5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1898)
"The motility may be completely extinguished, while the muscular excitability for both sort of currents is enfeebled and equal (Meyer). IV. ..."

6. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1893)
"An increase of electrical excitability is found in many fresh peripheral paralyses, and also in tetany. A diminution of electrical excitability is found ..."

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