irritability

irritable | American Dictionary

irritable
adjective
us/ˈɪr·ɪt̬·ə·bəl/
becoming annoyed or angry very easily:
The baby has really been irritable today.

Examples of irritable

irritable
We prepared for interviews by conducting a detailed analysis of the existing literature on mebeverine and irritable bowel syndrome.
Heritability of irritable impulsiveness : a study of twins reared together and apart.
We performed an in-depth case study on mebeverine, a drug prescribed to patients with irritable bowel syndrome, to explore this hypothesis.
She was apyrexial, irritable and weighed 9.4 kg (10th percentile).
Only well-defined and recognized somatic diseases, but not medically unexplained syndromes such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel or chronic fatigue syndrome, were considered sufficient somatic explanation.
In all cases, the trauma probably created an irritable focus rather than interrupted the conduction axis completely.
Low scores were characterized by apathetic, indifferent, irritable, sarcastic, or denigrating behavior toward the child.
In this play-acting scenario, both parties exaggerate and flatten each other into caricatures in the course of an irritable and peevish exchange.
Three days later, the child became increasingly irritable and unsettled.
Therefore, we recommend sedating irritable patients prior to echocardiographic evaluation.
He was highly distractible, irritable, and oppositional in the inpatient school.
Such children are expected to be less fussy and, thus, less irritable than other children.
This is also true for the "irritable hypo!mania" intermediate phenotype.
These guidelines include those for medicinal products for weight control and irritable bowel syndrome.
In particular, we explored the relationships between irritable, angry maternal behavior, as well as supportive behavior, and children's responses to stress.
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