REACTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reactivity mean? 

• REACTIVITY (noun)
  The noun REACTIVITY has 2 senses:

1. responsive to stimulation

2. ready susceptibility to chemical change

  Familiarity information: REACTIVITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REACTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Responsive to stimulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

reactivity; responsiveness

Hypernyms ("reactivity" is a kind of...):

sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reactivity"):

excitability; irritability (excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part)

Derivation:

reactive (reacting to a stimulus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ready susceptibility to chemical change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("reactivity" is a kind of...):

susceptibility; susceptibleness (the state of being susceptible; easily affected)

Derivation:

reactive (participating readily in reactions)

 Context examples 

A type of acute or chronic skin reaction in which sensitivity is manifested by reactivity to materials or substances coming in contact with the skin.

(Contact Dermatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An FAB (fragment antibody) offers the advantages of smaller size and lower cross-reactivity compared to the complete antibody.

(Fab Fragment, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers identified four genetic variations that were associated with T cell reactivity to alpha-synuclein.

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

This agent reacts to most human adenocarcinomas (colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, ovarian, endometrial, mammary) but has weak or undetectable reactivity to most normal tissues.

(Chimeric Monoclonal Antibody B72.3, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit for measuring concentration or/and reactivity of a test substance (an antigen or antibody of interest) as defined in the literature reference standard for the particular quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method.

(Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal responses to sunlight or artificial light due to extreme reactivity of light-absorbing molecules in tissues.

(Photodermatitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This concerns the synthesis, structure, reactivity, and the properties of such compounds, and the chemical transformations they undergo.

(Organometallic Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Except for some reactivity to skin and gastric and colon mucosa, monoclonal antibody COL-6 does not appear to react with normal tissues.

(Monoclonal Antibody COL-6, NCI Thesaurus)

Except for some reactivity to skin and gastric and colon mucosa, monoclonal antibody COL-1COL-1 does not appear to react with normal tissues.

(Monoclonal Antibody COL-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Anti-ID 11D10 reacts specifically with breast tumor cells and with minimal reactivity with normal tissues.

(Monoclonal Antibody 11D10, NCI Thesaurus)