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exposed
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[ adjective ] with no protection or shield
Synonyms Examples "the exposed northeast frontier" "open to the weather" "an open wound" Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)The natural anatomical and physiological defensive features of the upper respiratory_tract , such_as the turbinates of the nose and the cilia of the trachea and larger bronchi , are capable of impinging out the larger particles to which we are ordinarily exposed in our daily existence . Some agents have been shown to be much more toxic or infectious to experimental animals when exposed to aerosols of optimum particle size than by the natural portal . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (clothing) not covered with clothing
Synonyms Examples "her exposed breast" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Recently , for_example , a paranoid woman 's large-scale philosophizing , in the session , about the intrusive curiosity which has become , in her opinion , a deplorable characteristic of mid twentieth century human culture , developed itself , before the end of the session , into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast , as indeed I was . Related terms |
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