increased sensitivity

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meanings of increaseand sensitivity

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increase
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈɪn.kriːs/ us /ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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sensitivity
noun
uk /ˌsen.sɪˈtɪv.ə.ti/ us /ˌsen.səˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
an ability to understand what other people need, and be helpful and kind ...
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Examples of increased sensitivity

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Increasedsensitivity of the elderly to the effects of diazepam.
The elderly appear to have an increasedsensitivity to opiates.
In accordance with evidence from the literature, our study suggests an increasedsensitivity to heparin.
Possibly, increasedsensitivity to phonology overrides the default mechanism for regularisation.
In conclusion, this comparative study demonstrated increasedsensitivity to oxygen of the metronidazole-resistant trichomonads.
The present study examined whether this blunting resulted an increasedsensitivity to caregiver stress over time.
There is an increasedsensitivity to the images of men and women that our languages create and reflect.
These studies showed that even limited bilingualism translated into increasedsensitivity to sounds, at least for a short time.
Increasedsensitivity for correlating poorly resolved proton multiplets to carbon-13 using selective or semi-selective pulses.
Male worms are smaller than female worms (fig. 2), and their increasedsensitivity to crowding is consistent with both findings.
One outcome of this increasedsensitivity to stress is that such individuals are rendered more vulnerable to psychopathology.
As wild poliovirus disappears, increasedsensitivity provided by a second stool specimen may reduce the risk of missing circulating virus.
The assumption that there is a critical time window characterised by an increasedsensitivity to outside influences on musical taste is supported by various studies.
The second specimen increasedsensitivity by 15 % overall and contributed more when the first specimen was collected late or was in poor condition.
Furthermore, such systems exhibit increasedsensitivity to initial conditions and parameter values resulting in small changes to parameters and producing different overall behaviour patterns.
Cerebral imagery of perceptual integration based analysis, which offers an increasedsensitivity to task-related effects compared to standard voxel-based statistical analysis.
At the same time, numerous and diverse studies indicate that a bilingual's increased competence in the component languages correlates with increasedsensitivity to code-switching norms.
Increased amygdala volume may index some genetic trait such as increasedsensitivity to threat cues, which could create a vulnerability for pediatric generalized anxiety disorder.
The reported worsening of guilt may also suggest a cognitive effect, reflecting study subjects' increasedsensitivity to their state and their surroundings.
Secondly, the increasedsensitivity to stress in the relatives could possibly be attributed mainly to the six relatives with a lifetime diagnosis of major depression.
The increasedsensitivity to hypoxemia during severe hypoglycemia suggests that a switch from oxidative to glycolytic metabolism ordinarily protects the retina from moderate hypoxemia.
An increasedsensitivity to the varying stress patterns of the primes was demonstrated by the right-hemisphere damaged patient group, however.
In comparison to the non-sensitive controls, amalgam sensitive subjects reported increased sensitivity to various neutral or noxious environmental stimuli (such as diverse dental materials, electrosmog and chemicals).
That smacks to me either of increasedsensitivity or an attempt to intimidate his opponents.
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