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susceptibility::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | susceptibleness |
| Type of | status, condition |
| Has types | capability, suggestibility, sensitivity, capacity, liability, predisposition, reactivity |
| Derivation | susceptible |
Examples of susceptibility
susceptibility
The research can uncover a susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.
From the businessweek.com
Probably that susceptibility to colds requires a kind of weakened immune system.
From the time.com
Ironically, men get their susceptibility to baldness largely from their mothers.
From the economist.com
A lack of ability for change in the brain could mean susceptibility to dementia.
From the sciencedaily.com
Occasionally she seems blissfully unaware of her own susceptibility to schmaltz.
From the nytimes.com
A frameshift mutation in NOD2 associated with susceptibility to Crohn's disease.
From the nature.com
Characterization of and osteoarthritis susceptibility in ADAMTS-4-knockout mice.
From the nature.com
Numerous behavioural studies document people's susceptibility to money illusion.
From the economist.com
Nutrient enrichment can increase the susceptibility of reef corals to bleaching.
From the sciencedaily.com
- The state of being susceptible; easily affected
- (susceptible) (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- (Susceptible) In epidemiology a susceptible individual (sometimes known simply as a susceptible) is a member of a population who is at risk of becoming infected by a disease, or can not take a certain medicine, antibiotic, etc if he or she is exposed to the infectious agent.
- The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability; emotional sensitivity; electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity)
- (susceptible) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease; likely to be affected by something; easily influenced or tricked; credulous; especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus
- (Susceptible) A person or animal not possessing sufficient resistance against a particular pathogenic agent to prevent contracting infection or disease when exposed to the agent.
- (Susceptible) Vulnerable or predisposed to a disease or infection.
- (Susceptible) Lacking the inherent ability to resist disease or attack by a given pathogen; not immune; prone to develop disease when infected by a pathogen.
- (Susceptible) being subject to infection or injury by a pathogen; non-immune.
