There is an over-excitability of the nerves in place of sluggishness, and an over-reactivity of the whole organism to its environment.

The feeding of thymus has caused muscle cramps which apparently depends upon an increased excitability of the muscle nerve endings.

When the parathyroids are removed, an astounding increase in the excitability of the nerves follow.

When the excitability of the nerves is measured by an electrical instrument it is found augmented by from five hundred to one thousand per cent.

In man, a condition of nervous over-excitability has been described as tetany.

That very intense tenderness and excitability which made her toil herself among the poor, and had called out both her admiration of Tregarva and her extravagant passion at his danger, made her also shrink with disgust from anything which thrust on her a painful reality, which she could not remedy.

The young man had never been strong: he had inherited his mother's delicacy of constitution, and her nervous excitability as well; but he had rare qualities of mind, and gave great promise as a scholar.

The nailed chair prevented further excitability.

excitability &c 825; fastidiousness &c 868; physical sensibility &c 375. sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.

unction, impressiveness &c adj.. trail of temper, casus belli [Lat.]; irritation &c (anger) 900; passion &c (state of excitability) 825; thrill &c (feeling) 821; repression of feeling &c 826; sensationalism, yellow journalism.

[Absence of excitability, or of excitement.]

compose, appease &c (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress &c (restrain) 751; render insensible &c 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability &c 825; master one's feelings.

compose, appease &c (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress &c (restrain) 751; render insensible &c 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability &c 825; master one's feelings.

compose, appease &c (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress &c (restrain) 751; render insensible &c 823; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability &c 825; master one's feelings.

720. excitability &c 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable &c adj.. temper; genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood.

Those however who, like Clerambault, have the virtue of sincerity without psychological gifts, are sufficiently well-equipped to exercise some control over their excitability.

They had all been forbidden to allude to it, but they supposed it was only on account of her weakness and excitability.

On the other hand, it must be admitted that with almost the strength of a tiger he combines the excitability of a terrier, and no doubt a badly trained Great Dane is a very dangerous animal.

The heroine sinks into the miserable squalor of a dipsomaniac and dies from a drunkard's disease, but her end is shown as the ineluctable consequence of her life, its early greyness and monotony, the sudden shock of a new and strange environment and the resultant weakness of will which a morbid excitability inevitably brought about.

I do not allude to his "borrowing," so ingeniously, not soundly, defended by Sir Joshua, but rather to his excitability, (if I may here apply a modern term,)that inflammable temperament, which took fire, as it were, from the very friction of the atmosphere.

He was one of those strange, unbalanced creatures that never reach maturity; he was a child all his short life; he had the generosity, the affection, the impulsiveness of a child, and he had, too, the timidity, the waywardness, the excitability of a child.

Personally, I believe it was our very excitability and sensitiveness which made it a necessity to recognize and enforce constant self-repression; but whatever may be the explanation, without taking into account long years of discipline in self-control, none can be correct.

As they came out of the river, half a dozen six-shooters were paying them a salute in lead; but the excitability of the horses made aim uncertain, and they rounded the cut-bank at the upper end and escaped.

He had them removed from his rooms, but in his state of extreme excitability, their very absence exasperated him, for his eyes were pained by the void.

I suppose, E, one secret of my being able to suffer as acutely as I do without being made either ill or absolutely miserable, is the childish excitability of my temperament, and the sort of ecstacy which any beautiful thing gives me.