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Definition of Excitability
1. Noun. Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.
2. Noun. Being easily excited.
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
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Medical Definition of Excitability
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1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitability
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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