HIGHLY SENSITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highly sensitive mean? 

• HIGHLY SENSITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective HIGHLY SENSITIVE has 1 sense:

1. readily affected by various agents

  Familiarity information: HIGHLY SENSITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHLY SENSITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Readily affected by various agents

Context example:

a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated

Similar:

sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)

 Context examples 

A highly sensitive immunoassay capable of detecting secreted materials from individual cells upon activation.

(Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

The waves were recorded from right-handed volunteers with a highly sensitive scanning technique called magnetoencephalography.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

Microfluidic components form the basis of so-called "lab-on-a-chip" devices that can process microliter and nanoliter volumes and conduct highly sensitive analytical measurements.

(Microfluidics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The results are the first demonstration that vision in marine invertebrates is highly sensitive to the amount of available oxygen in the water.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

Among its suite of highly sensitive instruments is the Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR), which records emissions from the gas giant across a wide spectrum of frequencies.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

However, when the researchers looked more closely at the data, they found evidence suggesting the human brain was highly sensitive to tones.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers found evidence of prion infection throughout the eyes of all 11 deceased patients using real time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC), a highly sensitive test that detects prion seeding activity in a sample as evidence of infection.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)

A highly sensitive technique for detecting and measuring antigens or antibodies in a solution; the solution is run over a surface to which immobilized antibodies specific to the substance have been attached, and if the substance is present, it will bind to the antibody layer, and its presence is verified and visualized with an application of antibodies that have been tagged in some way.

(ELISA, NCI Thesaurus)