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- adjective medicine Extremely
susceptible ; having an elevatedsusceptibility
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Examples
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It might follow that even a normal amount of thyroid secretion would lead to excessive stimulation of the hypersusceptible motor mechanism.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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The nervous system in Graves 'disease is hypersusceptible to stimuli and to thyroid extract.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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If levels were low, it was because the child had excretion difficulties even in response to chelation or was hypersusceptible to the low level of mercury present.
Autism Hub Kathleen 2010
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The evidence that some individuals are hypersusceptible to mercury's effects is singularly unconvincing.
Autism Hub Kathleen 2010
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ASD results from a hypersusceptibility to mercury in a small group of children, one would expect the symptoms of this group to resemble closely those of mercury poisoning victims, with a lower dose producing similar effects in those genetically hypersusceptible.
Autism Hub Kathleen 2010
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Petitioners have not shown either that certain children are genetically hypersusceptible to mercury or that certain children are predisposed to have difficulty excreting mercury.
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While differences that reflect the range of naturally-occurring individual variability are known to exist with respect to the responses of individuals to mercury exposure, these differences do not point toward the existence of a hypersusceptible population.
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