hypersusceptible

[hahy-per-suh-sep-tuh-buhl]

adjective

Pathology.

1. hypersensitive.

Other Word Forms

• hypersusceptibility noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypersusceptible¹

First recorded in 1905–10; hyper- + susceptible

Example Sentences

Without the protection conferred by this gene, Marois's team found that the mosquito from sub-Saharan Africa became hypersusceptible to parasites1.

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Patricia Campbell-Smith, the master in the Mead case, also dismissed two subarguments made by a few opponents of vaccines, saying they “have not shown either that certain children are genetically hypersusceptible to mercury or that certain children are predisposed to have difficulty excreting mercury.”

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The nervous system in Graves' disease is hypersusceptible to stimuli and to thyroid extract.

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It might follow that even a normal amount of thyroid secretion would lead to excessive stimulation of the hypersusceptible motor mechanism.

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