irritation
/หษชษนษชหteษชสษn/IPA: /IH0 R IH0 T EY1 SH AH0 N/
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The act of irritating or annoying
โWhat irritation causes you to be so moody?โ
- 2
The state of being irritated
- 3
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; especially, 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.
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