| 单词 | excitability |
| 例句 | “My assessment,” the doctor writes, “is that he will be able to recover in a short time, while retaining the extreme excitability that must form the essence of his character.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "Lessons in Chemistry" would seem to require entirely different applications than a soft-scripted improvisational reality show, but as Eisenberg explained in a wide-ranging interview, the common element is the excitability factor. "Sometimes you burn the lasagna": "Lessons in Chemistry" creator Lee Eisenberg talks cooking good TV 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The excitability is evident from the off, as Sweet greets arriving punters with bear hugs and big smiles. Jonny Sweet ? review 2011-01-12T21:30:01Z She's passionate about many TV shows, movies and books currently in the zeitgeist, but her excitability surrounding "Star Trek" is a bit more pronounced. The greatest Star Trek 'Generation' reunites 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “Shadows” is its best when the vampires’ grandiosity clashes with their vulnerabilities, especially their excitability, and I’ll never see another in-house ad on a hotel TV without thinking that it’s Colin Robinson’s favorite show. The Best TV Episodes of 2021 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Emily was known to vacillate between doting indulgence and violent rages; Robert was prone to headaches and excitability, and addicted to the cheap, lurid tales of violence known as “penny bloods”. Boys’ own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In conversation, Mr. Tambor is a sunnier version of characters like George Sr. and Hank Kingsley, evincing all of the kooky excitability without the caustic narcissism. ArtsBeat: Jeffrey Tambor on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-21T16:25:52Z Since then he has lost none of his prowess and not much of his excitability, but his art has changed considerably nonetheless. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z But his excitability contrasts nicely with Ms. Stiles’s stillness. ‘Phoenix,’ Starring Julia Stiles, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Langdon is center stage practically all the time, and he inhabits the character’s excitability and anxiety with an always-tense streak of vulnerability. The hot play ‘Curious Incident’ burns almost too brightly at Kennedy Center 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Zinc transport is also involved in nervous system excitability, and plays a role in people's mental equilibrium and health. The genetic heritage of the Denisovans may have left its mark on our mental health 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z However, when the overall excitability of the entire network was raised simultaneously, by increasing potassium concentration across the entire network, this did trigger a synchronous, coordinated activity response across the entirety of the networks. Why are the brain's nerve cells organized into modules? 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z While the nervous system can influence the excitability of cardiac and smooth muscle to some degree, skeletal muscle completely depends on signaling from the nervous system to work properly. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The low-impedance electrodes are six to 10 square millimeters in area and deliver up to 10 milliamperes of electric current between adjacent electrodes—enough to modulate the excitability of a million or more nerve cells. Electrodes That Stimulate the Brain Reveal the Roots of Conscious Experience 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Philbin’s trademark blend of enthusiasm, quick wit and excitability made him a popular television host for more than six decades. Regis Philbin, boisterous television personality, dies at 88 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z This indicates that H1047R acts ‘cell autonomously’ to regulate neuronal excitability — meaning that it functions within the cell itself rather than acting on a neighbouring cell. Brain tumours manipulate neighbouring synapses 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “These patterns control brain excitability, making you more or less liable to seizures.” Molecules in Blood Spike Hours before Seizures 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “The excitability of neurons is determined by many different ion channels and maybe targeting just one may not be enough by itself.” Analgesia without opioids 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “I think there is a recognition it’s not just seizures which are a real abnormality in the brain,” said Gallagher, “but greater excitability in the earliest stages.” Role of Seizures in Alzheimer's Disease is Gaining Overdue Attention 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “His excitability is the thing that allows him to do his due diligence, and understand how various sectors work very quickly,” said Dr. Jason Camm, the chief medical officer of Thiel Capital Management. The Psychedelics Evangelist: A German Financier Wants to Turn Magic Mushrooms Into Modern Medicine 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z This pattern might explain how certain PIK3CA variants drive neuronal excitability and seizures. Brain tumours manipulate neighbouring synapses 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Sustained stress or exposure to excessive glucocorticoids impairs memory by lowering hippocampal excitability, retracting connections between neurons and suppressing the birth of new neurons. How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Many Victorian physicians, Professor Bowen wrote in The Times Literary Supplement, would have considered assertions about his wife’s “languor” and “excitability” sufficient basis to draw up a certificate of “moral insanity.” Charles Dickens Tried to Banish His Wife to an Asylum, Letters Show 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Immediately after a stroke or brain injury the gene helps to tamp down the excitability of neurons, helping to limit damage, he says. Gene in Infamous Experiment on Embryos Points to New Stroke Treatment 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Carmichael notes that blocking CCR5 also caused neurons to express genes that increase their excitability, making them fire more readily. HIV drug could improve recovery after stroke 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z She retained the same excitability Tuesday that can be heard in the Bartók, Poulenc and Ravel on “Deux,” her recent recording with Leschenko. Review: With violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, all bets are off 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Instead of damping things down as they do in the hippocampus, in this fear-promoting region they increase excitability and expand neuronal connections. How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z When I responded with, "There isn't an advance," they reacted to my news with a muted excitability. How digital publishers are shaking up the book industry 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The tumor was probably increasing the excitability of a brain region involved in emotions; when Mr. Pinocchio lied, this excitability caused a structure called the amygdala to trigger seizures. The Art of Lying 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Black doesn't star in the musical, but his round physique, wit, excitability and wailing tenor do — faithfully embodied by the charming Rob Colletti. 'School of Rock': When Axl Rose meets Andrew Lloyd Webber 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z They remained calmer and less prone to excitability than new neurons in the inactive animals’ brains. For Your Brain’s Sake, Keep Moving 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z This ability to alter excitability—and with it, the strength of such urges—may be important for understanding other neurological conditions, say the researchers. Why Resisting The Urge to Yawn Will Only Make It Worse 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The urge to yawn was down to how each person's primary motor cortex worked - its "excitability". What happens in the brain to make us 'catch' yawns - BBC News 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Investigating this question is important because altering the excitability of thalamus neurons might impair auditory perception, Linden adds. Can Hearing Be Restored by Making the Brain More Childlike? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Tetzlaff, long known as a meticulous and refined virtuoso, had just displayed a newfound excitability, sawing madly in the increasingly charged ending of the first movement, even broadly if not audibly stamping a foot. Demon Fiddling: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Devinsky said cannabidiol appears to bind to a receptor in the brain that dampens the excitability of nerve cells that lead to seizures. Marijuana extract sharply cuts seizures in severe form of epilepsy 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Every weekday afternoon, they would hold court: Francesa, a baritone, the confident and Olympian voice of authority, and Russo, the more high-pitched, prone to excitability. Tribeca 2017: What if you went to a film festival and a sports radio show broke out? 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Call it old-fashioned chivalry or drunken excitability, but Frank is the sort who intervenes with his fists when he sees a man mistreating a woman at a bar. Twists and turns undermine psychosexual drama 'Frank & Lola' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The current changes the excitability of individual neurons, making them slightly more or less likely to fire—neuropriming them, to use Halo’s jargon. For the Golden State Warriors, Brain-Zapping Could Provide an Edge 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The researchers showed that a sodium-blocking compound reduced the excitability of neurons and decreased pain in the patients. How iPS cells changed the world 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z These Hodgkin–Huxley equations are “beautiful and inspirational”, says neurobiologist Anthony Zador of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, adding that they have allowed many scientists to make predictions about how neuronal excitability works. Neural modelling: Abstractions of the mind : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z After finding examples of stress and excitability among operators, Atticus also said operators need better training to handle such “adverse mental states.” Why do Metro train operators keep running red lights? 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z "Domestically, he sought - even in difficult times - to maintain rationality, which acted as a protective shield against fads and emotion. He abhorred excitability and wishful thinking," Die Zeit wrote. Blunt in words, decisive in actions, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dies at 96 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Extensive messenger RNA editing generates transcript and protein diversity in genes involved in neural excitability, as previously described7, as well as in genes participating in a broad range of other cellular functions. The octopus genome and the evolution of cephalopod neural and morphological novelties : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Their interest was clearly focused on cellular and subcellular phenomena, but a proper understanding of ion flux in producing membrane excitability lay a century ahead. Exclusive: Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Studies prove that night owls show an increase in motor cortex and spinal cord excitability in the late evening hours. 11 Scientifically Proven Reasons Why Night Owls Get More Done 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Mercury poisoning can affect the central nervous system, causing tremors, excitability, insomnia, and a grim range of psychotic reactions. A Fortune at the Top of the World 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Symptoms include a change in behavior, irritability, excitability, staggering or biting. Raccoon in Pittsylvania County tests positive for rabies 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Things like exclamation marks and hashtags “appeal to our curiosity, excitability and innate desire for conversation.” When Does A Facebook Post Get Most Traction? Sunday! 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z This membrane excitability has, of course, taken a center-stage in neuroscience since the work of Hodgkin and Huxley in the 1930s. Exclusive: Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z If he occasionally got a player’s name wrong, it was quickly forgiven for an excitability that seemed to fit March Madness perfectly. World Cups to sound different in US in 2014, ‘18 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Our findings demonstrate a cardiotoxic mechanism by which crude oil affects the regulation of cellular excitability, with implications for life-threatening arrhythmias in vertebrates. [Report] Crude Oil Impairs Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Fish 2014-02-13T19:25:59.450Z Ensheath synapses, regulate neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission.Respond to injury by secreting extracellular matrix proteins.Implicated in neurogenesis, cell migration, and many neurological and psychiatric disorders. Neuroscience: Map the other brain 2013-09-05T20:20:29.767Z This was associated with increased neuronal network excitability and increased susceptibility to seizures in response to a seizure-inducing agent. [Research Articles] Adenosine Receptor Antagonists Including Caffeine Alter Fetal Brain Development in Mice 2013-08-07T18:55:14.153Z I fully concur with your sentiment that the influx of cations is of vital importance in cellular excitability. Exclusive: Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Both appear to enhance cortical excitability and cognitive performance. News Analysis: So Long, Lance. Here Comes 21st-Century Doping. 2013-01-19T17:06:21Z Pyramidal neurons in the epileptic focus showed enhanced intrinsic excitability consistent with seizure generation. [Research Articles] Optogenetic and Potassium Channel Gene Therapy in a Rodent Model of Focal Neocortical Epilepsy 2012-11-21T19:55:09.947Z Other known side effects include elevated blood pressure, rapid heart beat and “excitability.” Diet drugs vs. Healthier lifestyle 2012-08-03T15:45:00.230Z This power of response is termed excitability or irritability. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Membrane excitability will play a role here, but as one among many other factors and considerations. Exclusive: Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z She was a woman of strong natural excitability, which, I know, from the description I have heard my father and half-sister give, prevented her from the exercise of discretion under the promptings of her zeal. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z For a little while I had noticed Marie's more than usual excitability, accompanied by occasional bursts of grief, without any apparent cause; but, knowing her extreme sensitiveness, I thought but little of it. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z In other cases there is chilliness, a general feeling of headache, malaise, and prostration, with lack of appetite or nausea, gloomy forebodings, taciturnity, nervous excitability, and restlessness. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Nervous excitability seldom prevails in the sanguineous constitution, where muscular masses are pronounced in athletic forms. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z I felt a strange excitability stealing through my frame, and the fingers which sought to fasten my tie shook so that they failed in their duty. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z It was plain to anyone who knew him that a nervous excitability had taken the place of his usual thoughtfulness. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The results achieved were partly automatic writing and partly phenomena of neuro-muscular excitability;—stiffening of the arms, and so forth. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The parallel between rabies and tetanus in the intensity of the reflex excitability would demand darkness and quiet as a sine qu� non of any rational treatment. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The principal attribute of life that renovates for a while its moral and its physical exhaustion is excitability, and a constant excitement is therefore indispensable, to serve as fuel to the consuming fire. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The “recurrent sensations” experienced after prolonged occupation with some one kind of sensory object may be regarded as due to an abnormal excitability of the cortical system concerned, resulting from its unduly prolonged exercise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Besides, as quick temper and excitability are a constant cause of self-suffering and discomfort, both physical and moral, it is justly considered that men of this temperament reap their own retribution. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z Carlile had great difficulty in keeping him in reasonable bounds, owing to Taylor's excitability and nervous temperament, which received a great strain by this vindictive punishment. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z The frequency and intensity of the paroxysms are dependent in a measure upon the degree of excitability of the nervous system, which of course differs in individuals. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z I was not put in this world to cause fresh disturbance: is there not enough of it already without my adding to it by my excitability?” Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z His marvellous energy, and the diseased state of nervous excitability he was in, sustained him. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z Her repose was gone; her piquant excitability had seemed abruptly to return. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The study provides some interesting insight into how cortical excitability may be related to conscious awareness.” Observatory: Mapping Grapheme-Color Synesthesia in the Brain 2011-11-21T23:25:02Z To the temperamental excitability and intensity is added the racial nervousness; and lucky are such if they do not go up in a final smoke of over-energised effort. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Like the rest of him, Haq’s voice was unexpectedly small but tense, carrying a threat of excitability, as if something in him were coiled and ready to spring. Magazine Preview: Bad Guys vs. Worse Guys in Afghanistan 2011-10-19T22:32:26Z The stiff, upright, careful old man cannot understand the jocund pliability of the boy, who, nevertheless, simply expends the superfluity of his natural vigor, and relieves his excess of nervous excitability. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Once more the volatile Deschamps was transformed from limp dejection to painful excitability. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z Monsieur Ravigote, with all the excitability of his nation, was, in the main, a very good-natured man, and was really anxious for the improvement of his pupil. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Of his excitability and his restlessness of manner I have already spoken. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z He first notices the color, the hardness, the brittleness, and the electrical excitability of this material. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z France had not yet reached the point of excitability which existed in Italy. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z As he ran his eyes over his company and saw their dogged jaws and alert, watchful faces, devoid of any trace of nervousness and excitability, his face lit with a quiet satisfaction. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z In youth the keen excitability of her nature often made her wayward and hysterical. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Believe me, I know woman's nature, with its thousand delicate threads of feeling and consequent excitability and sensitiveness, and I warn you to conceal my image in your inmost soul. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Set in Falder’s cell, it is meant to illustrate the loneliness, the excitability, and even the brutishness of a prisoner’s life. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Sometimes we speak of a purely spiritual experience apart from all physical excitability; but such a thing is impossible, because every spiritual thought has its beautiful, physical accompaniment. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Like his half-brother, the orator of Roanoke, Judge Tucker, was a person of intense feelings and great excitability, an eager impulse, and a keen power of sarcasm. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z He knew very well that Mr. Greatorex was only relieving the tension of his feelings, 207 and working off his nervous excitability on the most convenient object. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z I did not answer, and she changed the subject, with the excitability of all sick people. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z It's a climate that only engenders more excitability, not good sense. The Hidden Fallout from Germany's Sudden Nuclear Shutdown 2011-06-02T05:30:00Z I have only asked for your advice, and you make use of expressions and fly off in a manner which nothing but the excitability of your temperament can excuse. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z The muscular system, though generally relaxed, manifests exaggerated reflex excitability. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Extreme excitability and irritation; the least little thing will arouse it. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z To demonstrate the device's capabilities, they measured the uptake of dopamine, a "neurotransmitter" whose associations with excitability and reward are already well-established, based on studies of anaesthetised rats. Wearable scanner maps rat brains 2011-03-14T11:56:34Z This nervous excitability was inherited, though not to the same excess, by Octave, whose mother died in his infancy and left him to the care of the hyper-sensitive invalid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z But she had no idea of the limits of his excitability. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Don't say it again—I must hope, Harriet, and you drive me mad by this excitability. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z The England manager got as near to excitability as is feasible for such a pragmatist when he thought of the youngster meeting Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League. Jack Wilshere's promise now faces the ultimate test of Barcelona 2011-02-10T22:59:01Z When a galvanic current is passed along a nerve its excitability is increased at the kathode and diminished at the anode. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Every created influence is shut out; one thing only moves him—the game; and that leaves not one pulse of excitability unaroused, but stirs his soul to the very dregs. Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z She herself could hope, nay, lived only on hope; controlling her excitability under the yoke of patience, and of her confidence in something brighter which might come into her life, by-and-by, when Frank was free. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z In England hitting a six was even rather despised, a symptom of a kind of flaky foreign‑accented excitability. Is England's six obsession the best way forward 2010-05-07T23:41:00Z The West needs to remember that this excitability among internal forces emerges as a result of China's success and not always because of what we do or don't do. How to Think About China 2010-04-08T08:50:00Z What sort of change takes place in the nervous tissue when its excitability is aroused, is not known; certainly none is visible. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers He seems to have been totally without either irritability or excitability. The True Benjamin Franklin There, tier above tier, was gathered the concentrated excitability and contagious enthusiasm of 87,000 spectators. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius They exhibit aversion to silence and solitude, love of rhythm, excitability, and lack of reserve. Races and Immigrants in America Even in schools the easy excitability of that generation frequently came to light. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Significant of the former are changes in rhythm, intensity, excitability and modifications by summation and inhibition; in fact a number of the main features of nervous reaction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Again he paused; then again he shook off his passing seriousness with nervous excitability, reseating himself at the table, as Burke entered. The Gambler A Novel He had no faith in the people or in popular government, with its unstable excitability. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius A keen black eye seemed almost to burn within its orb, and to give an expression of petulant and peevish excitability, like the querulousness of a sick man. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency I fancy the rigorous earnest man, with his keen excitabilities, was not altogether easy to make happy. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII My excitability gave me an advantage at first and I would drive him across the room, and then he would drive me across and it would end very commonly with my nose bleeding. Reveries over Childhood and Youth His temperament was of almost ultra-poetic excitability, and he had a positively morbid incapacity for undertaking any useful employment, whether it was in itself congenial or no. A Short History of French Literature We think it probable," says Mr. Jeffrey, "that some men have originally a greater excitability or general vivacity of mind than others, and that is the chief difference. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 I hope to cure the excitability or lassitude of your wife, but I beg you never to ask me what we have said to each other. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine There appears also to be a specific action of lowering the reflex excitability of the spinal cord. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" My father had answered that Dowden believed too much in the intellect and that all valuable education was but a stirring up of the emotions and had added that this did not mean excitability. Reveries over Childhood and Youth In a low voice, and with an absence of all that resembled her usual excessive excitability, Annette remarked that my wife ought to feel very happy to think that she had planted yonder wood. Waldfried A Novel Its very bark is symbolical of its temperament, and its mode of attack energetically declares the excitability of its nature. The Dog Telegraphy created a certain excitability, and susceptibility, on account of the direct arousing of the faculties and the operation at great distances, which give to the soul a certain tension and excitation. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine In proportion to the amount and excitability of his energy, restraint, obstruction, delay is irksome, and soon becomes a positive and intolerable pain. Logic, Inductive and Deductive How could he do otherwise than become poor, dull and lifeless, as the excitability of his organ diminishes and its susceptibility to external impressions disappears? Naturalism And Religion His public demeanour, and especially his excitability and vehemence of speech, made people attribute to him an overbearing disposition and an irritable temper. Studies in Contemporary Biography Delirium usually precedes its death, and nervous excitability is the common accompaniment of most of its disorders. The Dog With these exceptions there was no cheering or enthusiasm, such as I would have expected from my preconceived idea of French excitability. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia Know that my wife suffers from a morbid excitability, which will finally destroy all the happiness of her life. Weird Tales. Vol. I He wants to run, shout, wrestle, ride, row, skate; and all these 370 together are often not sufficient to relieve the need he feels of throwing off the excitability that burns within. Household Papers and Stories Fearing from her husband's excitability some serious consequence would ensue, she determined to get him off the scent, as it was not possible to restore his tranquillity. The Grandee The vitality of the muscles of the intestines is excited; and to allay the pain, that excitability must be destroyed. The Dog Even miserable as she was, the thought of this avalanche of feminine excitability made Sally snuffle with amusement. Coquette In 1858 he was near dying of a gastric fever, and was at all times subject to acute catarrhal and bronchial affections and extreme nervous excitability. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Woman is furthermore aided in the latter faculty through the greater excitability of her cerebral cortex. Woman under socialism The tranquillity of my outward circumstances has its counterweight m the excitability of my nature. Records of Later Life The way to manage an animal of this description is, to respect his evident excitability. The Dog One thing more this novel also confirms, which our earlier discoveries have already taught us, the abnormal muscle excitability and muscle erotic. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Its prominent physical properties are excitability and contractility, which Kühne and others have especially investigated. Was Man Created? Hence, perhaps, the Teuton's phlegm and the Gaul's excitability. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Rabies is an infectious disease involving the nervous system and characterized by extreme excitability and other nervous disorders and always terminating in death. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle It is there a common and obvious method of both creating and expressing a high state of nervous excitability. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development It is interesting that this abnormal muscle excitability, which manifested itself in various muscular convulsions, was present with Otto Ludwig throughout his earthly career. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Don Herero, with all the excitability of his nationality, could hardly contain himself as he walked rapidly back and forth, always keeping his eyes towards the sea. Due South or Cuba Past and Present We have to reckon with the headiness and excitability of youth. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures The intensity of the sexual excitability in women has nothing in common with their character; it may be associated with high intelligence, with high moral and æsthetic qualities, and even with a strong will. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The extreme excitability manifested by born criminals is shared by epileptics. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso It is, alas! only too true, sir, for you have no idea of the excitability of this good fellow. A Romance of the West Indies In the figurative sense, spirit denotes animation, excitability, perhaps impatience; as, a lad of spirit; he sang with spirit; he replied with spirit. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions He tried to discover the causes of the singular excitability which, on two occasions, had betrayed itself in the best citizens of the town. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories If contradicted, he showed all the excitability of the Southern French nature; he passed from promises to threats, from flatteries to outbursts of wrath, until he met with compliance. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) With a boy's eagerness and excitability, he had spent himself an instant after he joined Ayesha in the darkness on her couch. The Saracen: The Holy War The spinal and muscular hyperic excitability produced by caffein is, in his opinion, due to the methyl groups attached to the xanthin nucleus. All About Coffee You mustn't take my wife's excitability too much to heart, nurse. Juggernaut The anecdote-books abound with good stories that illustrate the political excitability of the inns in past times, and the energy with which ministers were wont to repress the first manifestations of insubordination. A Book About Lawyers When an animal has been killed by depriving it of oxygen gas, the heart and other muscles, and indeed the whole system, will be found completely to have lost its excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease But the very pettiness of the pretext and even the purpose illustrates the same conception; which may be called the virtue of excitability. What I Saw in America It may thus be prescribed for hard drinkers to counteract the baleful excitability produced by alcohol; in fact, many topers taper off after a long debauch with coffee containing small amounts of alcoholic beverages. All About Coffee Further the strength of the cough depends on the excitability of the patient; the greater this is, the more as a rule will he cough. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated The system being raised to a state of feverish excitement, and its healthy balance disturbed, its exhausted excitability is not restored. Select Temperance Tracts In this case, the excitability of the part exposed to the action of the cold, becomes accumulated, and the warm blood, rushing through it, from every other part of the body, excites an inflammation. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease At the same time his excitability had wholly disappeared, leaving him very quiet and as docile as a child, but with little memory of past happenings. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Another characteristic of the spoilt woman is the changeableness and excitability of her temper. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) But the aspects of Wesley's teaching that took chief root in Cornwall, as also in Wales, were just those parts on which he himself would have laid least emphasis—the excitability, the emotionalism. The Cornwall Coast The first is the nervous temperament, characterized by extreme activity of body and mind, nervous excitability, dark complexion, prominent features, and wiry frame. 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Tartarin On The Alps In private he talked in a homely way, his words following one another too quickly and sometimes showing a confusion of thought and excitability of brain. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration Bah! how absurd!” he added the next moment, calming down from the excitability he had displayed. In the Mahdi's Grasp Life then, or those functions which we call living, are the effects of certain exciting powers acting on the excitability, or property distinguishing living from dead matter. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Their disposition is irritable; they frequently exhibit fits of great excitability of temper and passion. 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Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Now, Rooney had neglected to take into his calculations the excitability of female nerves. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters In the mare one diseased and irritable ovary should be removed, to do away with the resulting excitability of the remainder of the generative organs. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse And yet the nervous excitability, and even irritability, of musicians is proverbial. The Education of American Girls Enthusiasm is a characteristic of the French nation; a trait in some individuals elevated to a sublime self-devotion, and in others degraded to mere excitability. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States This however ought to be done gradually, for fear of exhausting the excitability, which in these cases is morbidly accumulated. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Eliza, her quick temper and excitability aggravated at that time by her late misfortunes, was not a fitting person to have the control of children. Mary Wollstonecraft Acute encephalitis may be ushered in by an increased sensibility to noises, with more or less nervous excitability, contraction of the pupils of the eyes, and a quick, hard pulse. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse But society is relieved of a large part of the excitability that attends it with us. The Education of American Girls The threshold of excitability changes under most various conditions. Psychotherapy The effect produced on the excitability by any stimulus, must evidently be in a ratio compounded of the degree of excitability and the force of the stimulus. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease He should most carefully aim to repress everything like excitability or irritability. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition This form may not be characterized in its initial stages by excitability, quick and hard pulse, and high fever. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse In most parts of North America, possibly in Australia also, industrial development has been too rapid, and has induced a nervous excitability and eager restlessness of temper from which South Africa is free. Impressions of South Africa But those brain cells may not respond, the channels may be blocked somehow or the excitability of those cells may be lowered. Psychotherapy These are examples of the final or irreparable exhaustion of the excitability; but we find also that it may be exhausted for a time, and accumulated again. 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Psychotherapy When the exciting powers have acted feebly, a person feels no inclination to sleep, because the excitability is not exhausted to the proper degree, and therefore does not want accumulating. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The intensity and solidarity, of feeling exhibited so markedly during war-time is made possible by the intense excitability of this instinct when the group is Page 87 under conditions of stress or danger. Human Traits and their Social Significance In the subacute cases the jaws may never become entirely locked; the nervous excitability and rigidity of the muscles are not so great. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse He regards my reception by the populace as a curious illustration of the excitability of an Italian mob—as no doubt it was. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) The speed with which the nervous impulse courses through the plant has been determined; its nervous excitability and the variation of that excitability have likewise been measured. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches In speaking of this subject, it was observed, that the more violently the exciting powers have acted, the sooner is sleep brought on; because the excitability is sooner exhausted. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease It is testimony to the easy excitability of sympathy as well as to an artist's skill that this can sometimes be done in a few lines or paragraphs. Human Traits and their Social Significance If the weather is warm or the variation of temperature great, all horses should have but slow, gentle labor until they become inured to it, the tissues hardened, and their excitability reduced to a minimum. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse In consequence, there is a morbid excitability of the nervous, and a debility of the muscular, system, which make all exertion irksome and wearisome. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School It was an open question whether such a high excitability of the tongue was to be claimed as a distinct advantage. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches But the stimulant powers may act so powerfully, and exhaust the excitability to such a degree, that they may overstep the bounds of sthenic or inflammatory disease and bring on debility. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease If this shows itself in a child during or after school, together with listlessness and excitability, all idea of lessons should at once be laid aside for a time. Papers on Health In other cases the nervous excitability may be such that precocity leads to overstimulation and later there is arrest of development, and the promising bud does not develop into the flower of the family. The Family and it's Members It also relates to adaptability in science and commerce, but if evilly afflicted, it denotes mental excitability, nervousness, lack of concentration, trickiness in business, and everything that is unreliable in character. Palmistry for All We will here remark, that now, as on the previous day, all the natural excitability of manner had disappeared from the commander-in-chief, and he was quiet, and exceedingly gentle in his deportment. The Two Admirals The effect of sleep is to accumulate the excitability, or render it more sensible to the effects of any stimulants applied. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Frank had noticed that, since the first appearance of the really ominous news, the excitability of his French schoolmates had disappeared. The Boy Scouts on the Trail But this excitability was soothed by the country, and in his own parish he was at his best. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies She rather enjoyed the picturesque Neapolitan tramp steamer with its cargo of wine barrels and packing cases, and its crew of bare-footed, red-capped seamen, talking and gesticulating with all the excitability of their Southern temperament. The Jolliest School of All There were some, however, even of the brave, who, from constitutional excitability, and not from any cowardice of spirit, exhibited symptoms of nervousness. The Drummer Boy First, when the powerful action of the exciting powers ceases for some time, the excitability accumulates, or becomes more capable of receiving their action, and is more powerfully affected by them. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Alternate applications of heat and cold are very valuable, when skillfully applied, as a means of allaying reflex excitability and promoting healthy action. Plain Facts for Old and Young His excitability was great: his self-control was not yet developed. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies "It was a case of intelligent anticipation of forthcoming events," said Clancy, whose excitability disappeared instantly, leaving him calm and extremely lucid of speech. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York This is to signally depress nervous reflex excitability when administered in full doses, as of from two to eight drops of the oil on sugar. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure And, on the contrary, when the action of these powers has been exerted with violence, or for a considerable time, the excitability becomes exhausted, and less fit to receive their actions. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease By "hysteria" is not meant nervous excitability, necessarily. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use With due allowance for the excitability of the French nature, the crowd was comparatively as peaceable as that which we may see surrounding a gospel wagon in one of our own cities. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Negative variation.—In all cases, animal, vegetable, and metal, we may obtain response by the method of negative variation, so called, by reducing the excitability of one contact by physical or chemical means. Response in the Living and Non-Living Such was the natural excitability of the people, that it was difficult to keep their expressions of feeling within proper bounds. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. This experiment not only proves that the vermilion colour of the blood proceeds from oxygen, but likewise seems to show, that oxygen is the cause of excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease But are not these facts referable to comparative excitability and apathy, and also to the multiplicity and variety of female ideas compared with the dulness of the Moslem's apprehension. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 A moderate light, or a moderate noise, does not affect us, and the power of thinking, which exhausts the excitability very much, is in a great measure suspended. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health We shall now proceed to inquire whether the response of inorganic bodies is affected by chemical reagents, so that their excitability is exalted by some, and depressed or abolished by others. Response in the Living and Non-Living But towards the end of the year 1871 his headaches became much more painful, his appetite left him, and sleeplessness and excitability of the nervous system were added to his other ailments. Life of Father Hecker Here is excitability enough, and even too much, for it has accumulated by the subtraction of a stimulus; but here is a deficiency of excitement from defect of stimulus. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The muscles become soft and flaccid, they exhibit tremors on attempted movement, and their excitability to the faradic current is diminished. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. These are examples of the finite, or irreparable exhaustion of the excitability, but we find also, that it may be exhausted for a time, and accumulated again. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health This reagent not only diminishes the excitability, but causes a very great prolongation of the period of recovery. Response in the Living and Non-Living He says that he is not so restless nor his mind so chaotic, but that he still has a pain at heart which he declares to be almost unbearable, joined to some nervous excitability. Life of Father Hecker Violent passions of the mind, such as great anger, keen grief, or immoderate joy, often go to such an extent as to exhaust the excitability, and bring on diseases of indirect debility. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Those affected become soft and flaccid, exhibit tremors on attempted movement, and their excitability to the faradic current is diminished. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. Life then, or those functions which we call living, are the effects of certain exciting powers, acting on the excitability, or property distinguishing living from dead matter. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health There are other chemical reagents, on the other hand, which produce the opposite effect of increasing the excitability and causing a corresponding exaltation of electric response. Response in the Living and Non-Living The fourth case mentioned here, absence of external stimulation, would naturally raise the nervous structures to an exceptional pitch of excitability. Illusions A Psychological Study This exhaustion of the excitability, by stimulants, may either be final, or temporary. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The loss of excitability to the interrupted current, and the specific alteration in the type of contraction with the constant current, is known as the reaction of degeneration. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. All the mischief is here caused by the violent action of the heat on the accumulated excitability. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health XVI study in detail the effect of chemical reagents in producing the enhancement or depression of excitability. Response in the Living and Non-Living In spite of their acknowledged nervous energy and excitability, Americans often show a good deal of a quality that rivals the phlegm of the Dutch. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin As age advances, more sleep is again required; and the excitability at last becomes so far exhausted, and the system so torpid, that the greatest portion of gradually expiring life is spent in sleep. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease After a few weeks all electric excitability is lost. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. The least quantity produces violent effects on their accumulated excitability, and by quickly exhausting it, ruins their constitutions through life, and often renders them habitual drinkers. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health The excitability of B is depressed by a few drops of strong potash or oxalic acid. Response in the Living and Non-Living It is only four days since we discussed the Vicar Apostolic's letter, and laughed somewhat at French excitability; but in four days what a change! Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation The poor in the country enjoy sound and sweet sleep: forced by necessity to labour, their excitability becomes exhausted in a proper and natural manner, and they retire to rest early in the evening. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The affected muscle is larger and firmer than normal, and its electric excitability is diminished. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. On the contrary, if the atmosphere contained a much less proportion of vital air, it would not stimulate the body sufficiently; the excitability would morbidly accumulate, and diseases of debility would occur. A Lecture on the Preservation of Health The normal contact, through water or salt solution, is now made at B′, a little to the left of B. The excitability of A is now depressed by oxalic acid. Response in the Living and Non-Living The nervous excitability—irritability—that often overlay the usually cordial kindliness and gracious bearing of the man, was an easy prey to such harassment. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain We may therefore, as we before hinted, distinguish three states of the irritable fibre, or three different degrees of excitability, of which the living body is susceptible. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Tetanus is a disease resulting from infection of a wound by a specific micro-organism, the bacillus tetani, and characterised by increased reflex excitability, hypertonus, and spasm of one or more groups of voluntary muscles. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. The higher centres, for example, seem to exert a constant inhibitive influence on the excitability of those below. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals A stimulus thus produces a state of excitability which may sometimes be expressed by change of form. Response in the Living and Non-Living For a moment anger triumphed over his state of nervous excitability. The Lighted Way As excitement both depends on exciting powers and excitability, it is evident that when a middle degree of stimulus acts upon a middle degree of excitability, the most perfect effect will be produced. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Girls are inclined to go even further than boys in this unrestraint through their greater excitability and recklessness, and their having less instinct of self-preservation. The Education of Catholic Girls I seemed to have lost the nervous excitability of a girl and to have become a woman, full of courage and hope. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War On the introduction of steam, with the consequent sudden increase of temperature, there was a transitory augmentation of excitability. Response in the Living and Non-Living Kate was so little in the mood for talking that Barracombe in responsive silence could toss the various probabilities about in his mind until he felt a nervous excitability that annoyed him. Round the World in Seven Days One degree of exciting power applied takes off one degree of excitability, and every subsequent degree impairs the excitability in proportion to its degree of force. 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Tell England A Study in a Generation Let no one however suppose that by these terms I mean to hint in the least at the nature of the excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Sedative drugs directed towards quieting the nervous excitability may be of service, but tonics, appetisers, laxatives, and drugs with a direct action on the stomach will have but little effect. The Nervous Child She kept pins in her mouth, but in other respects showed few eccentricities beyond an extreme excitability. The Lion's Share To determine the influence of a reagent in modifying the excitability of the tissue, we rely upon its effect in exalting or depressing the responsive E.M. variation. Response in the Living and Non-Living Government is paralysed, and with the well-known excitability of humanity in groups men begin to confound the importance of the thing wanted with the importance of getting what they want. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government A moderate degree of light, or a moderate noise, does not affect us, and the power of thinking, which very much exhausts the excitability, is in a great measure suspended. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Restlessness and continual Page 113 crying must be combated or digestion suffers, and may show itself in a peculiar form of explosive vomiting, which betokens the reflex excitability and unrest of the stomach. The Nervous Child There are two kinds of excitement and excitability. Sketches in the House (1893) Again a resultant differential action may be obtained even when the disturbance reaches both A and B, if the electrical excitability of one point is exalted or depressed by physical or chemical means. Response in the Living and Non-Living What makes recovery difficult is that the national character has been affected by the continual strife in the direction of excitability and desire for change. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government Those who indulge in the use of spirituous or fermented liquors, which exhaust the excitability to a great degree, require much more sleep than those who are content with the crystal stream. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Only by lowering the excitability of the nervous system, by occupying the mind and giving strength to the child's powers of control can we effectively combat the hyperaesthesia. The Nervous Child In his petulance and excitability the commanding general forgot to be gentlemanly, some of them said; and they left him not at all relieved of any doubts they had concerning our sudden and forced march. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 The above results show in what manner the excitability of the wire is enhanced by purely physical means. Response in the Living and Non-Living In this condition excitability, irritability, emotional outbursts, fatigue, restlessness, digestive disorders, vasomotor disorders, appear before the characteristic symptoms do. The Nervous Housewife Like opium and fermented liquors it exhausts the excitability, and leaves the person dejected, and all his senses blunted, when its stimulant effects are over. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease The cold and somewhat stately Welles was repelled by Stanton's impulsiveness and violence, while Stanton was exasperated by Welles's calmness and lack of excitability. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Louise thought him rather a funny little man, and his excitability vastly amused her. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper The entire length of the wire may then be stimulated and a resultant response will be produced, owing to the difference between the excitability of the two ends. Response in the Living and Non-Living P. Rosenbach has found experimentally that potassium bromide diminishes the sensibility of the cortical substance of the cerebrum to electric excitement, while, the excitability of the underlying white substance remains unaltered. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 In the last lecture I began to investigate the laws by which living bodies are governed, and the effects produced by the different exciting powers, which support life, upon the excitability, or vital principle. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease My nervous excitability has some connection with the moon's changes as I have since noticed. The Visionary Pictures From Nordland The possibility of sexual excitement between women and animals involves a certain degree of sexual excitability in animals from contact with women. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy This may be accomplished by touching one contact, say B, with a reagent which like Na2CO3 exalts the electric excitability. Response in the Living and Non-Living At the same time, even in these frogs, a certain degree of sexual inclination and a certain excitability of the embracing center still persisted, disappearing when the sexual epoch was over. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women In short, we shall find, first, that every thing which increases the quantity of oxygen in organized bodies, increases at the same time their excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Crichton-Browne remarks that children in springtime exhibit restlessness, excitability, perversity, and indisposition to exertion that are not displayed at other times. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism In hysteria the erotic excitability of these zones is sometimes very intense. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy With due tact and some excitability, I protested vigorously against his coming out. Across China on Foot It had been a brilliant brain, and that very excitability that had lent its brilliance was fatal to it now. Six Women Fermented liquors differ from water, in containing carbon and more hydrogen: these produce intoxication: but pure spirits, which contain still more hydrogen, produce a still higher degree of intoxication, and consequent exhaustion of the excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Generally I go out of the room when he comes, for his great excitability makes me nervous, and his fondness for detail is wearisome. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II The mobility and extreme excitability of the French, render such men as Monsieur Thiers extremely dangerous to monarchical power. The Idler in France We see these men setting forth or assembling to defend their king or church, and we see it without surprise; a rich daring loves danger, a deep excitability likes excitement. 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Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 There was no shouting among them, no patriotic demonstrations, no excitability. The Soul of the War We may call this property, with Haller, irritability, or, with Brown, excitability; or we may use vital principle, or any other term, could we find one more appropriate. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Indeed, the extreme nervous excitability which they produce sometimes becomes a real insanity, which, though it may, in many cases, be finally outgrown, may probably in many others lead to lasting and most deplorable results. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind The will is suspended during sleep, so the dream mind is more a prey to excitability than the waking mind. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition To those who understood the mission of the man with the bag, and were moreover acquainted with the excitability of the nerves of Mr. Simon Tuggs, it was quite comprehensible. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people In this microcosm he represented French loquacity and excitability, and we beg you to believe that they were well represented. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon These all tend to drive away sleep, by their vehement stimulating effect, which still has power to rouse the excitability to action, though it has been considerably exhausted. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease He became very obese, and his nervous excitability to an extent subsided. James Otis, the pre-revolutionist Underlying all the peculiarities of his nature, its strength and its weakness, its exuberance and its reserves, was the nervous excitability of which I have spoken in an earlier chapter. Life and Letters of Robert Browning One mode of emotional excitability is exceedingly important in the composition of the energetic character, from its peculiarly destructive power over inhibitions. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature One, his incessant restlessness and excitability—which may be caused, naturally enough, by unusual energy of character. The Woman in White Secondly, That whatever diminishes the quantity of oxygen, diminishes the excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease It is full of bustle and excitability, like Athens after its ruin, and all the Greek cities in their decline. Heretics He maintains that, above all, these cases show instability and psychic excitability. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology In a later lecture we shall have much to say about this higher excitability. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Feeling uneasy and dis- satisfied with himself for this nervous excitability, he returned to bed. Far from the Madding Crowd The excitability of animals, made to breathe oxygen gas, or to take the oxygenated muriate of potash, or acid fruits, is very much increased. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Feeling uneasy and dissatisfied with himself for this nervous excitability, he returned to bed. Far from the Madding Crowd Neither did Mrs. Lyddell speak of it, and Marian only knew that she had been informed of it, by the increased excitability and irritation of her nerves. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World But the psychopathic temperament, whatever be the intellect with which it finds itself paired, often brings with it ardor and excitability of character. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The activity, liveliness and excitability of this people may be traced in the accounts of antiquity; but Roman records would add the impression of duplicity, treachery and cruelty as characteristics of the race. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate Hence it is evident, that the effect or excitement must be in a ratio compounded of the exciting powers and excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease He had only shown her this excitability once before—on that odd uncomfortable night when he made her sit with him on the Embankment. Sir George Tressady — Volume I Mrs. Lyddell, though less ill, was not materially improved as regarded the excitability of her spirits. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Her father's growing excitability and irritation, and the bad accounts of Maurice, troubled her sorely. The Case of Richard Meynell If the usual exercise be neglected for a few days, and the dog is taken out, and suffered to range as he likes, the accumulation of excitability is expended in a fit. The Dog Secondly, by exhausting the excitability, by a strong or long continued stimulant action. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease It came prompt, as usual, but with a promptitude, we felt disposed to flatter ourselves, inspired by other feelings than mere excitability of nerve and vehemence of intent. Villette Less than 0.9 of the excitant principle per cent. of air-dried oats, the dose is insufficient to certainly affect the excitability of horses, but above this proportion the excitant action is certain. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Wordsworth's health, steady and robust for the most part, indicated the same restrained excitability. Wordsworth She shifted round on her seat with Southern excitability and pointed her finger at her bosom. The Mountebank In the former case, the excitability is abundant, and highly susceptible of the action of stimulants. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease She sneered slightly in saying this: nervous excitability was not much to Madame's taste. Villette If every public-spirited voter had got to work himself up into a state of nervous excitability and prostration where reason tottered on its throne, he thought that we needed a reform. Remarks With it, they rather fed than physicked me; and its deleterious effects on the nervous system were doubly injurious to me, as increasing tenfold the excitability that required every curb. Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain No wonder then if his natural excitability was often morbidly increased. Life of Luther When a lesser stimulus than usual has been applied to the body, the excitability accumulates, and is then affected by a stimulus even less than that which, before this accumulation, produced no effect whatever. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease His philosophic reflections produced as much effect on her vivacious excitability as they might on a restless Skye-terrier. In and out of Three Normady Inns "Stop!" cried Valentine, all his suppressed excitability bursting bounds in an instant, as he took Mrs. Peckover by the arm, and pressed her back into her chair. Hide and Seek At least, Deronda argued, Mordecai's visionary excitability was hardly a reason for concluding beforehand that he was not worth listening to except for pity sake. Daniel Deronda The same superficial excitability which determined his swift reception of the word will determine his hasty casting of it aside, and immediately he stumbles. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The cold only renders the body more subject to the action of heat afterwards applied, by allowing the excitability to be accumulated. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease They had all been forbidden to allude to it, but they supposed it was only on account of her weakness and excitability. Saxe Holm's Stories Those however who, like Clerambault, have the virtue of sincerity without psychological gifts, are sufficiently well-equipped to exercise some control over their excitability. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War It touched that spring of hysterical excitability which Mirah used to witness in him when he sat at home and sobbed. Daniel Deronda This illustrious pontiff feared that the excessive excitability of my feelings would cause me to commit some deadly sin at the moment of my death, after I had received the blessed ointment. International Short Stories: French The state of health, or tone, if we use that term, consists therefore in a certain quantity or energy of excitability necessary to its preservation. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease 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. Mercy Philbrick's Choice Crying has been called the "waste gate" of the human system; the door of escape to that excess of excitability which sometimes prevails, especially among children and nervous adults. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health He has what a phrenological physiologist would call a vitally sanguine constitution—has a good deal of temper, excitability, and determination in his character. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston 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. The Glands Regulating Personality This is owing to the general excitement produced by the pain, which removes the great torpor and debility which preceded the fit; and from the inability to take exercise or food, the excitability accumulates again. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Of this abnormal excitability, the old Curé of Senlis gave one or two instances which struck me. Towards the Goal Impaired blood, nervous excitability, sick headaches, mental depression, sleeplessness, and a long train of untold sufferings may be directly traced to this physical sin. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics She is excitable, but in her it's a fine kind of excitability.' On the Eve There is some disturbance of the lime balance with an increased excitability of the vegetative nervous system. The Glands Regulating Personality In this way, the exhausted excitability will gradually accumulate, and the healthy state be reestablished. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease I have more frequently suffered from nervous excitability due to tea or coffee, than from any other kind of stimulant. Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life In consequence, there is a morbid excitability of the nervous, and a debility of the muscular system, which make all exertion irksome and wearisome. American Woman's Home Because Russian excitability has one specific characteristic: it is quickly followed by exhaustion. Letters of Anton Chekhov The result is sometimes an enormous increase in the excitability of all the cells, and especially of the vegetative apparatus. The Glands Regulating Personality The first will comprise those diseases in which the excitability is sufficiently abundant, or even accumulated, but where the excitement is deficient from a want of energy in the exciting powers. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease "How strange—how strange it all is!" she resumed, with a manner that betokened a strong nervous excitability. A Day of Fate Would not twenty years of oral communication and Spanish or Italian excitability suffice for the rooting of such a story? The Fair Haven Disappointment, apathy, nervous limpness and exhaustion are the inevitable consequence of extreme excitability, and such excitability is extremely characteristic of our young people. Letters of Anton Chekhov Irritability, depression, excitability, melancholia, exaltations, restlessness, hysteria, loss of self-control, or even more marked mental aberrations may appear. The Glands Regulating Personality What proves that joy and hope act by stimulating, and grief and despair by withdrawing stimulant action from the body, is, that the former exhaust excitability, while the latter accumulate it. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease What disturbed me was that his blindness, his ill health, and his suffering had united to these traits an intense excitability and a morbid nervousness. An Adventure with a Genius The disease had made fearful inroads upon a constitution that had never been robust, and the nervous excitability of the patient was likely to accelerate her decline. At Last Thus the extreme excitability, the feeling of guilt, the liability to become exhausted are purely Russian. Letters of Anton Chekhov When the parathyroids are removed, an astounding increase in the excitability of the nerves follow. The Glands Regulating Personality Both these are stimulants, and exhaust the excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease My excitability and depression were noticed by my relations. My Life — Volume 1 He proved to be an unusually good-natured fellow, though of an excitability insufficiently balanced by his standard of culture. My Life — Volume 2 The excitability of the French is always maintained at one and the same level, and makes no sudden bounds or falls, and so a Frenchman is normally excited down to a decrepit old age. Letters of Anton Chekhov The feeding of thymus has caused muscle cramps which apparently depends upon an increased excitability of the muscle nerve endings. The Glands Regulating Personality The excitability is first exhausted, and then the stimulus is withdrawn. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Meanwhile I was very much troubled by excitability and rushes of blood to the brain. My Life — Volume 1 The source of so much misery is the increasing physical weakness of the female and the increasing nervous weakness of the male, with an increasing sexual excitability, two factors of tragic effect for the wife. The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene But if it should grow old with you; if it should change to hateful excitability; and excitability is the worst enemy of matrimony. The Wedding Guest Tom evidently served as a kind of safety valve for his master's nervous system, and many an explosion of superfluous excitability he had to bear. Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing We should therefore apply heat in the gentlest manner possible, and gradually exhaust the morbidly accumulated excitability. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Wilfrid, though anything but weakly nervous, was impatient of suspense, and, in face of a situation like the present, suffered from the excitability of an imaginative temperament. A Life's Morning In women sexual excitability is often caused by local diseases, and passes off with their cure; if not, she must use her will-power, and take the various forms of cold baths. The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene I remember him now, in all his young loveliness, in all the excitability of a first love, and my heart kindles too warmly to write what I wished. The Wedding Guest No, no; it's entirely my own idiotic excitability. Will Warburton That this may take place, therefore, we must gradually lessen the quantity of stimulus, till the excitability become capable of being sufficiently acted on by the exciting powers, when the cure will be affected. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease A stupid routine, or a rowdy excitability, had taken the place of the old progressive Liberalism, which kept ever in view the prime interests of civilisation. Our Friend the Charlatan Those swarthy, amply waistcoated, voluble little men were really very good fellows in spite of their excitability and torrents of talk. The Days Before Yesterday There come upon us, it seems to me, in those times, fits of musing far deeper and more intense, excitability of feeling—perhaps of imagination too—more acute than at any other time. The King's Highway There was something in the child's nervous temperament that made the first hours of the night peculiarly painful to her, and the sounds of the distant festivity added to her excitability. The Trial The mode of living is such as brings on indirect debility, or exhaustion of the excitability, such as the use of rich and highly seasoned food, and a daily use of fermented liquors. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease On the other hand, it may be due entirely to the hastened blood stream from the nervous excitability. Disturbances of the Heart Upon this, the Jewish excitability, vibrating between the desire of gain and the terror of consequences, assumed a new form. Jezebel's Daughter She had set him down to be a man whose external in excitability owed nothing to self-repression, but stood as the natural surface of the mass within. The Hand of Ethelberta He seemed to impart to those about him a nervous force and excitability as real as that induced by brandy. The Blazed Trail There is no doubt that sensual corruption is particularly engendered by an artificial state of society, which necessarily fosters morbidity of imagination and nervous excitability. Irish Race in the Past and the Present He had seen his rage, and he knew the excitability innate in the whole family. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero It must not be forgotten that this month was a time of intense excitability and of nervous reaction. Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North The excitability, irritation, and recklessness which had previously characterized them had disappeared. Clarence The truth is, they display the nervousness of women, and, from one end of the Revolution to the other, this excitability keeps on increasing. The French Revolution - Volume 1 He had, at the same time, grown in character, his excitability and over-sensitiveness seemed to have been smoothed away, and to have given place to a calmness of tone, that was by no means impassibility. The Heir of Redclyffe A nervous excitability had taken possession of her that was playing strange freaks not only with her body, but with her mind. Tommy and Co. The extreme excitability, which circumstances have imparted to his moral system, has its dangers and its advantages; it being one of the dangers, that an obdurate scar may supervene upon its very tenderness. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni And then his explosiveness, impatience, excitability; his conscious dumb ignorance of all things beyond his own small horizon of personal survey! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 A curious and tragic instance of this excitability occurred some years ago. The Civilization of China If we cast a glance at the variety to be observed in the human character in respect to feeling, we find, first, some people who have very little excitability, who are called phlegmatic or indolent. On War — Volume 1 The weakness of my organs, or rather, the too great excitability of my nervous organization, prevents me from exercising these functions of our ministry. The Village Rector According to Brown's theory, life, diseases, and methods of cure are explained by the property of "excitability." A History of Science — Volume 4 This speech had the effect of really interesting the doctor in my present condition, which was indeed one of chronic irritation and extreme excitability, alternating with fits of the very blackest despair. Dead Men Tell No Tales The concussion has left him, as I feared it might, in a state of nervous excitability. The Vanished Messenger His customary keenness and excitability of look had subsided, and had left nothing in their place but an expression of suave and meditative repose. The Black Robe As we have seen, the intense diffusion of excitement throughout the whole body is a sign of the childish and inferior organism; as maturity approaches and throughout childhood excitability decreases and is better localized. The Foundations of Personality And there are indications; malnutrition, nervous excitability, and so on. Anna Karenina She knows this herself, and when she saw that I recognized it, she admitted the excitability of her temperament to me. The Country Doctor A very notable oculist, Himly, was the first to have made the observation that in the diseased excitability of the retina every color is a tone higher. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students And so the poor ancient women go their way; to the terror of France and Paris, whose nervous excitability is become extreme. The French Revolution With these it is necessary to consider excitability as well, and the most interesting beings are here our objects of study. The Foundations of Personality Dickens wrote for a world that either was exceedingly excitable and sentimental, or had the convention or tradition of great sentimental excitability. Hearts of Controversy We may, therefore, reasonably conclude that the lassitude, the diminished mental power, the excitability, irritability, restlessness, delirium, and unconsciousness which may be associated with acute infections, are due to physical changes in the brain-cells. Origin and Nature of Emotions Here we may see the universal transition from sensibility to acute excitability which is a source of many quarrels. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students It is a state of nervous excitability such as few Nations know. The French Revolution This third generation Jewish-American has dropped all the mannerisms of excitability in gesture and voice, and his adherence to good form includes that attitude of nonchalant humor so characteristic of the American. The Foundations of Personality This is a bit of Faraday's innermost nature; and as I read these words I am almost constrained to retract what I have said regarding the fire and excitability of his character. Faraday as a Discoverer And then came sudden darkness, as some one of the attendants in misguided excitability switched off the lights. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale The excitability is opposed to slowness and one-sidedness in thought; he is easily surprised by irrelevancies; he is torn from his drowse, and behaves like a somnolent drunkard…. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The change is so great, the difference so significant and painful, that the consequence must be a series of unpleasant properties,—egoism, excitability, moroseness, cruelty, etc. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Nevertheless, his high excitability and his quick fatigue made it necessary to shelter him, for any effort at toughening merely brought about a "breakdown." The Foundations of Personality But is he not all the more admirable, through his ability to tone down and subdue that fire and that excitability, so as to render himself able to write thus as a little child? Faraday as a Discoverer The killing points to the easy excitability, the passionateness, and the instinctive sense of justice in women which demands immediate revenge for evil deeds. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Again, merely accidental or habitual general excitability tends to intensify all sounds, and whether the witness under consideration was in such condition can be determined only by the expert physician. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Yet feminine conservatism indicates a certain stupidity, less excitability and smaller capacity for accepting new impressions. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students A permanent excitability of these nervous centers as a unit is engendered, and these are easily aroused either by a stimulus from the body or from without. The Foundations of Personality |
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