hyposensitive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- hyposensitivity noun
Example Sentences
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A hyposensitive may feel no normal symptoms of a disease until accidental conditions build up his sensitivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of pain normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
With a sensitive person, sick or well, pressure on the styloid process will hurt keenly, whereas the hyposensitive will suffer not at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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