susceptibility to disease. capacity for receiving mental or moral impressions; tendency to be emotionally affected. susceptibilities,capacities for emotion; feelings: His susceptibilities are easily wounded. Electricity. electric susceptibility. magnetic susceptibility. ...
:the quality or state of beingsusceptible:the state of being predisposed to, sensitive to, or of lacking the ability to resist something (as a pathogen, familial disease, or a drug):sensitivity 2 a : paramagnetic b :the ratio of the electric polarization to the electric intensity in a pola...
noun In medicine, an unusual predisposition toward infection or the attacks of infectious disease. noun In electricity, the ratio of the magnetization produced in a specimen of iron, or other material, to the magnetizing force. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of ...
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Susceptibility generally refers to a person's vulnerability to developing a disease. The physical factors involved are numerous, of a genetic nature, such as dopamine receptors and serotonin receptors, of an endophenotypic nature, such as skin conductance and cortisol response, and a phenotypic ...
To evaluate the meaning of isolated antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc), 88 Chinese subjects with isolated anti-HBc received rescreening of hep... CHO℡U CHAN,SHOU〥ONG LEE,YANG㏕E TSAI,... - 《Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology》 被引量: 49发表: 1995年 Detection, by...
Meaning Preliminary evidence suggests that children have a lower susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with adults, but the role that children and adolescents play in transmission of this virus remains unclear. Abstract Importance The degree to which children and adolescents are infected by ...
The self, life meaning, and behavioral health : an attempt to reduce susceptibility to stress-related illness through a psychoeducational enhancement of se... The self, life meaning, and behavioral health : an attempt to reduce susceptibility to stress-related illness through a psychoeducational ...
However, if expressed in excess of the wild-type PRF, its negative impact on CL function may predispose to disease, such as the various hematological cancers mentioned above. Perforin Deficiency and Human Cancer Environmental or common microbial agents are thought to trigger FHL, typically in ...
An interpretive summary of recent immunologic and molecular biologic data concerning the molecular basis of susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis will be presented. The central point of view is taken that the MHC class II molecules encoding disease susceptibility function in a specific immune recognition...