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Meanings of hypersensitive in English
Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
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Examples for "allergic"
Examples for "allergic"
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However, the role of basophils in allergic airway inflammation is less clear.
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For example, bronchial hyperresponsiveness may be seen in patients with allergic rhinitis.
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In the US 50 years ago, one in fifty people was allergic.
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Eosinophilia occurs commonly in many diseases including allergic diseases and helminthic infections.
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However, for a minority, an insect sting can produce an allergic reaction.
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Results: OVA challenge induced an AHR after 24 h in OVA-sensitized guinea-pigs.
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Her every nerve felt alive, sensitized to the point of near pain.
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Thirty-seven percent of the children were sensitized to at least one allergen.
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You have become sensitized to energy and inner movement through other exercises.
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Army courage these days is highly sensitized steel in response to will.
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In stark contrast, elimination of the external binding site generated supersensitive receptors.
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Thus the supersensitive couple were more and more impelled to go away.
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And what can a poor, supersensitive thing like you mean to him?
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His condition makes him supersensitive to certain disturbances in the aether.
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A hard and bare youth had made me supersensitive and suspicious and narrow.
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Her mind, in this direction, was like a clean but highly sensitised plate.
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The average citizen has become sensitised to the value of that precious commodity: water.
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All of my nerve endings were hyper sensitised, she said.
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They sensitised the public as to who the enemy was.
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I rather fancy that I have become sensitised to it.
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We previously showed that small interfering RNA silencing of betaIII-tubulin expression hypersensitized non-small cell lung cancer cells to TBAs.
Usage of hypersensitive in English
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Purpose: Food allergy is a hypersensitive immune response to specific food proteins.
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I also asked myself if I had been too proud, too hypersensitive.
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We further show that 18 candidate effectors can suppress plant hypersensitive responses.
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On patrol with Stopkham The group is hypersensitive about protecting its reputation.
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He would come off as some combination of uncouth and comically hypersensitive.
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The storm made her even more alert, hypersensitive to sound and movement.
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Phoebe was hypersensitive about what she termed her membership in Crazies Unlimited.
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She gasped at the sensation of his fingers on her hypersensitive flesh.
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She saw it, and in her hypersensitive condition recognized it instantly.
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Sport mode errs on the side of aggressive twitchiness and hypersensitive throttle response.
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Only the hypersensitive Vera was disturbed by the monotonous beating of restless wings.
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She moaned softly at the touch, her fingers' destination already hypersensitive and ready.
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Investing emotionally in injustices and being hypersensitive to tragedies is taxing.
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Her skin had become hypersensitive, feeling the rasp of her T-shirt.
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I'm prickling everywhere-alongmy neck and down my arms, feeling hypersensitive and overheated.
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A woman who has gone through Mrs. Clarke's ordeal is generally hypersensitive afterwards.
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