IRRITATION
\ˌɪɹɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌɪɹɪtˈeɪʃən], \ˌɪ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of IRRITATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
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an uncomfortable feeling in some part of the body
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the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
By Princeton University
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the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
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an uncomfortable feeling in some part of the body
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the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
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A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
By Oddity Software
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The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
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A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of exasperating; the state of being provoked or vexed; exasperation; vexation; heat and redness caused in an organ, etc.
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Irritative.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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The state of a tissue or organ, in which there is excess of vital movement; commonly manifested by increase of the circulation and sensibility. Broussais defines irritation to be; - the condition of an organ, the excitation of which is carried to so high a degree, that the equilibrium resulting from the balance of all the functions is broken. In this signification, he also uses the word surirritation, which he considered as a higher degree, and as the essential cause of fever. Irritation is the precursor of inflammation.
By Robley Dunglison
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The act of stimulating.
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A state of over-excitation and undue sensitiveness.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of stirring up or provoking to activity. Excitement of a bodily part or organ to excessive sensitiveness or unhealthy action.
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The state of being irritated
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of irritating ; excitement of anger or passion ; provocation ; exasperation ; anger;—the act of exciting heat, redness, action in the skin or flesh by friction or external stimulus a morbid sensation or action, or both in conjunction, produced by natural, medicinal, or mechanical agents.
By Thomas Sheridan
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