susceptibility

"How many people carry variants in this gene and is there a susceptibility to deafness or age-dependent hearing loss?" she said.

Other research, the study noted, has found “greater male susceptibility to cortical atrophy and neuroinflammation under stress, which aligns with our findings of heightened pandemic-related brain aging in males.”

One issue that has emerged as women's sport has been given more attention is a difference in the susceptibility to some injuries.

Everyone sounds too smart to be prone to error, although Sevigny comes closest, embodying someone in a precarious state of emotional susceptibility, whose obvious intelligence hides unspoken wounds.

“For 100 years or more, we’ve known that measles does cause an acute susceptibility to other infections,” Mina said.