Excitability

Definitions: Excitability

Excitability

Noun

1. Excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part.

2. Being easily excited.

Date "excitability" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Excitability

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Property of a cardiac cell whereby, when the cell is depolarized to a critical level(called threshold), the membrane becomes permeable and a regenerative inward current causes an action potential. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Excitability

Synonyms: excitableness (n), irritability (n), volatility (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Excitability

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Noun: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness; Adjective: turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance; irritability; (irascibility); itching; (desire); wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation; (irregular motion).
	Compose, appease; (moderate); propitiate; repress; (restrain); render insensible; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability; master one's feelings.
Excitation	Trail of temper, casus belli; irritation; (anger); passion; (state of excitability); thrill; (feeling); repression of feeling; sensationalism, yellow journalism.
Feeling	Warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart; (disposition); passion; (state of excitability); ecstasy; (pleasure).
Irascibility	Excitability; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable; Adjective: temper; genus irritabile, hot blood.
Sensibility	Excitability; fastidiousness; physical sensibility.
Violence	Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Excitability

English words defined with "excitability": depressant, downer ♦ erethism ♦ muscle relaxant, Muscular excitability ♦ sedative, sedative drug, Suscitability ♦ temperament. (references)

Specialty definitions using "excitability": Anti-Arrhythmia Agents ♦ doctrine of Rasori ♦ Histrionic Personality Disorder, Holothurin ♦ Irritable Mood ♦ Rasorianism, Rasorism. (references)

Etymologies containing "excitability": Suscitability. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Excitability

Domain	Title
Books	Neuromodulation: The Biochemical Control of Neuronal Excitability (reference) The problem of excitability; electrical excitability and ionic permeability of the nerve membrane (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Excitability

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This change in the balance of neurotransmitters may increase these neurons' excitability and enhance stretch reflexes. (references)
		No study to date has directly compared the effectiveness of zanamivir, oseltamivir, amantadine, and rimantadine for the treatment of influenza A. The available information suggests that these four drugs are similarly effective in reducing the duration of uncomplicated acute illness due to influenza A. Zanamivir and oseltamivir differ from amantadine and rimantadine in terms of their side effects and cost. Use of amantadine, and to a lesser extent rimantadine, has been associated with side effects including tremors, excitability, insomnia, dizziness, mood change, muscle movement problems, psychosis, and fatigue. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Excitability

"Excitability" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excitability" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Excitability

Expressions using "excitability": muscular excitability ♦ repress one's excitability ♦ state of excitability. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "excitability": over-excitability.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Excitability

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
excitability	9
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Modern Translations: Excitability

Language		Translations for "excitability"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏الاهتياجية. (various references)

Chinese		激发性. (various references)

Danish		excitabilitet (emotivity), irritabilitet (emotivity, irritability). (various references)

Dutch		excitabiliteit (emotivity), prikkelbaarheid (emotivity, irritability). (various references)

Finnish		kiihottuvaisuus. (various references)

French		excitabilité. (various references)

German		erregbarkeit (emotivity, irritability, sensitivity). (various references)

Hebrew		ר�'ישות (sensibility, sensitivity, squeamishness, susceptibility, thin skin, touchiness). (various references)

Indonesian		dapat dirangsang (excitable). (various references)

Italian		eccitabilit� (fractiousness). (various references)

Manx		greesaghtys. (various references)

Pig Latin		excitabilityay

Portuguese		excitabilidade (emotivity, irritability). (various references)

Romanian		excitabilitate, emotivitate (emotiveness, emotivity, sensibility), iritabilitate (bile, irritability, petulance, ticklishness). (various references)

Russian		возбудимость (inflammability, sensibility). (various references)

Spanish		excitabilidad (irritability, temperament). (various references)

Swedish		lättretlighet (irascibility, irritability, touchiness). (various references)

Turkish		telaşlı olma, heyecanlanma. (various references)

Ukranian		збудливість (inflammability, mobility). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Excitability

Derivations
	Words ending with "excitability": hyperexcitability. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Excitability"

Words rhyming with "excitability" (pronounced 'Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Excitability

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-i-l-t-t-x-y"
	-4 letters: biacetyl.
	-5 letters: ability, albitic, cattily, ciliate, citable, exactly, lattice, tabetic, tacitly, tactile, taxitic.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-i-i-l-t-t-x-y"
	+3 letters: inextricability.
	+4 letters: exceptionability.
	+5 letters: hyperexcitability.
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