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Definition of Excitable
1. Adjective. Easily excited.
Derivative terms: Excitability, Excitableness
Antonyms: Unexcitable
2. Adjective. Capable of responding to stimuli.
Definition of Excitable
1. a. Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
Definition of Excitable
1. Adjective. Easily excited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excitable
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Excitable
1. 1. Capable of quick response to a stimulus; having potentiality for emotional arousal. Compare: irritable. 2. In neurophysiology, referring to a tissue, cell, or membrane capable of undergoing excitation in response to an adequate stimulus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excitable
Literary usage of Excitable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"... The two excitable substances already discussed, muscle and nerve, are not tlie
only members of the class. It might be supposed that a nerve acting on a ..."
2. Mental Deficiency (amentia) by Alfred Frank Tredgold (1922)
"In the apathetic type of idiots it is deficient; in the excitable, excessive.
... Apathetic and excitable Idiots.—We have seen that the less- pronounced ..."
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"it is not commonly noticed, and, in the case of an excitable imagination like
Cellini's, it would be basis enough for superstition. ..."
4. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"The lateral columns are also excitable in their anterior portions, near the
anterior nerve roots; while toward their posterior portions, according to ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1890)
""An Experimental Investigation into the Arrangement of the excitable Fibres of
the Internal Capsule of the Bonnet Monkey (Macacus sinicus). ..."
6. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"Peaceful in their pursuits, phlegmatic by temperament, the -Netherlands were yet
the most belligerent and excitable population of Europe. ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Athens appears as the centre of the excitable Hellenic mind, profoundly stirred
by the arrival of great sophists,1 and keenly alive to the questions of ..."
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