susceptible

  1. Adjective.  likely to be affected by something.
  2. Adjective.  easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
  3. Adjective.  (medicine) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus.
  4. Noun.  (epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease.

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