Category:Excitability

Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. excitabilité.]

1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.