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What does Hyperresponsive mean?

What does Hyperresponsive mean?

: characterized by an abnormal degree of responsiveness (as to a physical or emotional stimulus) The biochemical barrage, which would be helpful were it directed at a foreign invader, provokes sustained inflammation of the airway lining.

What is Hyporeactive?

Medical Definition of hyporeactive : having or showing abnormally low sensitivity to stimuli her patellar and Achilles reflexes were hyporeactive— Andres Alcaraz et al. a hyporeactive patient.

What does hyperactivity mean?

Hyperactivity means having increased movement, impulsive actions, and a shorter attention span, and being easily distracted.

What is the meaning of Peractive?

5 adj If you say that a person or animal is active in a particular place or at a particular time, you mean that they are performing their usual activities or performing a particular activity.

What is an atypical response?

In the diagnostic criteria for autism in DSM 5, the American Psychiatric Association describe atypical responses to sensory stimuli as ‘hyper- or hyporeactivity to sensory input’ (APA, 2013).

What is meant by perceptiveness?

1 : responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning a perceptive eye. 2a : capable of or exhibiting keen perception : observant a perceptive scholar. b : characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight.

What does it mean to be percipient?

Definition of percipient (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : one that perceives. 2 : a person on whose mind a telepathic impulse or message is held to fall.

What causes hyper responsiveness in asthma?

In the asthmatic airway, acute hyperresponsiveness is caused, in part, by the enhanced presence of mediators released from inflammatory cells (e.g. histamine and leukotrienes) that directly induce bronchoconstriction and enhance bronchoconstrictor responses to other agonists.

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Ruth Doyle