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Meanings of supersensitised in English

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

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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.
      Pubmed
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      In the US 50 years ago, one in fifty people was allergic.
      The South African
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      Eosinophilia occurs commonly in many diseases including allergic diseases and helminthic infections.
      Pubmed
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      However, for a minority, an insect sting can produce an allergic reaction.
      The Irish Times
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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.
      When darkness comes
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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.
      The Michael Chekhov Handbook
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      Army courage these days is highly sensitized steel in response to will.
      My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
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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.
      Bring the Jubilee
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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.
      The Guardian
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      He would come off as some combination of uncouth and comically hypersensitive.
      Seveneves
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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.
      Jude the Obscure
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      And what can a poor, supersensitive thing like you mean to him?
      The Indian Lily and Other Stories
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      His condition makes him supersensitive to certain disturbances in the aether.
      The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
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      A hard and bare youth had made me supersensitive and suspicious and narrow.
      The Log-Cabin Lady — An Anonymous Autobiography
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      Her mind, in this direction, was like a clean but highly sensitised plate.
      The Getting of Wisdom
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      The average citizen has become sensitised to the value of that precious commodity: water.
      The Irish Times
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      All of my nerve endings were hyper sensitised, she said.
      The Irish Times
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      They sensitised the public as to who the enemy was.
      The Guardian
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      I rather fancy that I have become sensitised to it.
      The Guardian
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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.
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