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He’s hypersensitive about his height.
As the larvae migrate through the skin an inflammatory response, dermatitis, is often stimulated which can be exacerbated in hosts which give hypersensitive responses.
A common example is hay fever, which is caused by a hypersensitive response by skin mast cells to allergens.
We have to be hypersensitive about it.
If anybody complains about the high level of unemployment, they are told that they are simply being hypersensitive about an issue which they should not worry about at all.
Everyone seems to he hypersensitive this afternoon.
I did not find any very harsh criticism, except, of course, if one were so hypersensitive that one was not prepared to listen to anything except unqualified praise.
There have been cases when people who are hypersensitive or have had an anaphyllactoid reaction have died through using penicillin, but its benefit to humanity is almost beyond calculation.
I also felt terrible—hypersensitive, panicky and weak.
