GC: adj
S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/005/x4946e/x4946e0b.htm (last access: 10 April 2016); http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23139114 (last access: 10 April 2016).
N: 1. Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin.
Latin, sentire, to feel.
2. Different meanings:
- Capable of perceiving sensations.
- Responding to a stimulus.
- Acutely perceptive of interpersonal situations.
- One who is readily hypnotizable.
- Readily undergoing a chemical change, with but slight change in environmental conditions, as a sensitive reagent.
- IMMUNOLOGY Denoting: 1) a sensitized antigen; 2) a person (or animal) rendered susceptible to immunologic reactions by previous exposure to the antigen concerned.
- MICROBIOLOGY Denoting a microorganism that is susceptible to inhibition or destruction by a given antimicrobial agent. Synonym(s): sensible (3).
3. “susceptible” in the fields of Microbiology and Parasitology: When a susceptible strain of bacteria is exposed to a temperate phage … some of the host cells will lyse … whereas others will not.
S: 1. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensitive (last access: 10 April 2016); http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sensitive – Mosby (last access: 10 April 2016). 2. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sensitive – Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012 (last access: 10 April 2016). 3. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 10 April 2016).
SYN: susceptible (depending on field and context)
S: TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 10 April 2016)
CR: sensitivity
