irritability
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"Now, what's going into phase III studies is a non-antipsychotic for irritability in autism. It's completely different."
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
He described attempting the keto diet as a “near-psychotic event” brought on by sugar withdrawal, joking that giving someone in his position that much irritability could have geopolitical consequences.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It also fueled his irritability and erratic behavior, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
But if they are overstimulated, they will have the opposite effect, creating stomach cramping, vomiting, nausea, irritability, and panic when exposed to even a small amount.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
Hungry Joe was a throbbing, ragged mass of mobile irritability.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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It acquires irritabilities, and sensibilities with new organizations, as in wounded snails, polypi, moths, gnats, tadpoles.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
It were sickening to detail all the paltry irritabilities, jealousies, and cabals, the spiteful detractions and animosities, that lurk far down, and cling to the very kelson of the ship.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
Of course there are a good many of these things which disappear together with the body, such as the glooms, suspicions, and cloudy irritabilities, which are caused by fatigue and malaise, and by ill-health generally.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
He recalled irritabilities, small acts and exclamations of impatience, boredom, "blues."
From His Family by Ernest Poole
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin