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Definition of Highly sensitive
1. Adjective. Readily affected by various agents. "A sensitive colloid is readily coagulated"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highly Sensitive
Literary usage of Highly sensitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"Manner in which radicles bend when they encounter an obstacle in the soil—Vicia
faba, tips of radicles highly sensitive to contact and other ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"... of nervous sensibility, but in a and, in the second, make some observations
on the diagnosis and treatment. morbid state they are highly sensitive. ..."
3. Practical Observations of the ætiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by William Bodenhamer (1868)
"... of a highly sensitive, irritable, or painful character, whether linear, oblong,
or circular, or whether attended by anal spasm or not. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"... effect of causing highly sensitive patients to lie with the head towards the
north, and the extreme discomfort of other directions of the body, ..."
5. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"Quercus Robur and Zea Mais; tip highly sensitive to attached objects, and in the
latter plant, to caustic. The curvature of the radicle sometimes occurred ..."
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