Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inirritable; good nature.
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Examples
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And the latter disease has its paroxysms of quick pulse, and in that respect corresponds with other fevers with inirritability.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The scrophula, or inirritability of the lymphatic glands, seems also to be occasionally induced by an excess in eating salt added to food of bad nourishment.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Scrophulous ulcers are difficult to heal, which is owing to the deficiency of absorption on their pale and flabby surfaces, and to the general inirritability of the system.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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This fever is attended with great inirritability, as appears from the dilated pupils of the eyes, in which it corresponds with the dropsy of the brain.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Whence it happens, that chalybeate medicines are of efficacy both to stop or prevent too great menstruation, and to promote or increase deficient menstruation; as the former is owing to inirritability of the veins, and the latter of the arteries of the uterus.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The vertigo is a symptom of inirritability, as shewn in Class IV.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When the contagious matters have been produced on the external habit, and in process of time become absorbed, a fever is produced in consequence of this reabsorption; which differs with the previous irritability or inirritability, as well as with the sensibility of the patient.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Old age consists in the inaptitude to motion from the inirritability of the system, and the consequent want of fibrous contraction; see
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766
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In some fevers, where the inirritability is very great, when the patient falls asleep, the pulse in a few minutes becomes irregular, and the patient awakes in great disorder, and fear of dying, refusing to sleep again from the terror of this uneasy sensation.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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This dark shade beneath the eyes, when it is permanent, is a symptom of habitual debility, or inirritability of the circulating system.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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