susceptibility
IPA: sʌsɛptʌbˈɪɫʌti
noun
- the condition of being susceptible; vulnerability
- emotional sensitivity.
- (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
- (physics) electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
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Examples of "susceptibility" in Sentences
- The most important is susceptibility.
- Originally, the link was to susceptibility.
- Everyone's skin has different susceptibility.
- The electric susceptibility of a vacuum is zero.
- The allergy itself, the susceptibility, is not a disease.
- In this case cancer susceptibility is inherited in autosomal dominant manner.
- The Chinese susceptibility is simply not the same as the Vietnamese or the Indonesians or the Turkish!
- The first piece, 'All alone,' I don't like, for these reasons: It possesses the fault of many pictures which I have noticed; more susceptibility is given to the child than he could possess.
- In 42 previous one-day internationals, he had never opened the bowling but Graeme Smith judged that the conditions and Pietersen's long-term susceptibility to left-arm spin justified the gamble.
- Biomarkers are useful in following the course of cancer and evaluating which therapeutic regimes are most effective for a particular type of cancer, as well as determining long-term susceptibility to cancer or recurrence.
- She said: "Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to greater long-term susceptibility to stress."
- "Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to greater long-term susceptibility to stress," Dr. Gobbi stated.
- Duster, president of the American Sociological Association, writes that research on isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (BiDil), produced by NitroMed, incorrectly links a biological idea of race to heart disease and that socioeconomic factors better explain susceptibility to heart disease.
- The history of Athens demonstrated the weaknesses of a direct democracy, namely the susceptibility to demagoguery or “rabble rousing” rhetoric, and the founders considered it mob rule, but in the 19th Century, there was a widespread belief in the right to riot and vigilante justice, both forms of democracy.