provocation

  1. Noun.  The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
  2. Noun.  Something that provokes; a provocative act.
  3. Noun.  (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.

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