susceptibility
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The degree to which a microorganism is inhibited by an antimicrobial agent, as measured in the laboratory.
Susceptibility testing showed the isolate was resistant to the first-line antimicrobial class.
Business noun
The state of being likely to be affected by something, especially something harmful.
The risk assessment flagged the client's susceptibility to a single-supplier disruption.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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