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Irrigation
- noun - (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
Irritating
- verb - (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent"
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
- causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
- causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
- excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame; "Aspirin irritates my stomach"
- excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; "irritate the glands of a leaf"
Irritation
- noun - (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; "any food produced irritation of the stomach"
- a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood"
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
Irritative
- adjective - (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent"
Janizarian
- - Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government.
Jubilating
- verb - celebrate a jubilee
- to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?"
Jubilation
- noun - a feeling of extreme joy
- a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event
- the utterance of sounds expressing great joy
Judicative
- - Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty.
Laminarian
- - Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.
Laminarite
- - A broad-leafed fossil alga.