Susceptible means easily influenced or prone to being affected by something, either physically or emotionally.
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This is not to suggest that a person of average maturity's access to a given sort of material must necessarily be limited by the weakness of
particularly susceptible individuals.
However, young horses are
most susceptible because of limited prior exposure and immunity.
Because this portfolio is concentrated in stocks in the consumer products sector, it may be more
highly susceptible to any economic, political or regulatory occurrences affecting this sector.
Through the nineteenth century physicists believed that atoms were, as the name implies, tiny pellets of matter
not susceptible of further analysis or division.
There is a list of hypoallergenic dog breeds that are supposed to cause fewer allergic reactions
in susceptible people.
Dogs are
also susceptible if they are overweight or suffer from lung or heart ailments.
While financial pundits are aware of this literature, they are just
as susceptible as the average investor.
Young dogs
become susceptible when they lose maternal antibody, usually between 6 - 12 weeks of age.
There is a growing interest in finding alternative therapies, such as a vaccine that could prevent disease development in
genetically susceptible individuals.
That it can evoke these somewhat mystical feelings in
susceptible people is hard to account for.
These findings support differential susceptibility predictions and imply that prevention effects on genetically
susceptible individuals may be underestimated.
The goals of treating canine distemper are of course to resolve the infection in the affected animal, but also to prevent spread of infection to other
susceptible animals.
Some cats, especially older ones, may have no signs of illness at all but can be a source of infection for more
susceptible cats in the same household or shelter.
While we aren't in the go - go era of the late 90s we are all
still susceptible to the bias highlighted in the excerpt above.
Puppies are usually born with some immunity acquired from their mother while in the womb, however, this passive immunity will soon disappear leaving your puppy
extremely susceptible to many dog diseases.
If you've ever worn a smartwatch before, you know
how susceptible they can be to taking bumps against door frames or tables.
The girls were not
so susceptible to the spell and saw a shiny menace.
Today's transport networks are capable of spreading the virus quickly through the biggest
susceptible population in the history of our species.
Most puppies / kittens are born with worms and dogs / cats
remain susceptible to the harmful parasites throughout their lives.
Highly
susceptible bacteria are killed outright while others are merely rendered unable to divide and the host's immune system then destroys them upon discovery.
Used for the treatment of an infection caused
by susceptible bacteria because other less expensive antibiotics were not effective or unacceptable because of their adverse effects.
Because of this, proper use of antibiotics should result in
susceptible strains eventually replacing resistant ones.
They are also
easily susceptible to heat stroke and usually don't do well in weather that's too hot or cold.
Far from getting on with their lives, patients may literally be undermining their lives as they continue to take the medications because they become
increasingly susceptible to adverse drug reactions.
Chronic exposure to toxins including oral and / or topical pesticides also may play a role in
susceptible pets.
I have a difficult relationship with horror stories: I have enjoyed a few, but I'm also
quite susceptible to being made anxious and put on edge.
They are most
susceptible because they tend to overlook some of the subtle signs of a scam when presented with the opportunity to get a loan.
People with weakened immune systems, such as transplant recipients and patients with genetic deficiencies, are
often susceptible to developing the condition.
People have already been looking for weak points of resistant pathogens, but they do it in the absence of
susceptible ones.
If you think that you would be
too susceptible to news events or daily swings, I suggest you start investing automatically and forget about it.
Further, the sector being highly regulated is
always susceptible to changes in environmental regulations which increase compliance thereby affecting the profitability.
As with cats, the most
susceptible humans will be young children or people with weak immune systems.
As with other influenza viruses, keeping infected dogs away
from susceptible animals would be beneficial.
Children are more
susceptible at about age 10 or 11, after their brains have developed to the point where they can hold positive and negative information about a parent.
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