hypersusceptible

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ susceptible

Adjective

hypersusceptible (comparative more hypersusceptible, superlative most hypersusceptible)

  1. (medicine) Extremely susceptible; having an elevated susceptibility
    • 1921, Charles Edward Marshall, Microbiology‎, page 685:
      Animals injected, as described above, may be rendered hypersusceptible to all bacterial proteins.

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