susceptible

IPA: sʌsˈɛptʌbʌɫ

(epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

Examples of "susceptible" in Sentences

Sapwood is susceptible to borers.
The nose is susceptible to frostbite.
He was susceptible to the supernatural.
What percentage of the population is susceptible
A minority of the population are not susceptible to the broadcasts.
Although these plants may look different, they produce the same reaction in susceptible people.
I view Islamic terrorists like I do bacteria or viruses – they are opportunistic and wreak their havoc in susceptible arenas.
He named his farm Quatrocchi, Italian for "four eyes," an appropriate name, he says, for what he calls a susceptible business.
Mutation in susceptible genes of high penetrance such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 is estimated to account for 3% to % 5 of all breast cancer.
No matter how hard researchers try, though, such studies remain susceptible to three of the most common sources of bias in medical research.
Specifically, without further balance sheet repair and reform, financial systems remain susceptible to funding disruptions that could endanger the economic recovery and weaken government budgets.
Until then though, 3D TV's may very well be used to draw in susceptible consumers and in some form (as long as we get used to it) will be viewable in video games, cell phones, and on our everyday television.
Expression of this gene product in susceptible mammalian cells yields a chimeric peptide containing EYFP localized to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane network, designed specifically for fluorescent labeling of this organelle.