psychrosensitive

Adjective

psychrosensitive (comparative more psychrosensitive, superlative most psychrosensitive)

1. Sensitive to the cold.
   • [A]ttenuated strains of myxoma virus, like attenuated strains of poliovirus type I, are less thermoresistant and less psychrosensitive (in their replication) than virulent strains.1965, Frank Fenner, F[rancis] N[oble] Ratcliffe, “The Continuing Evolution of Myxomatosis”, in Myxomatosis, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 341
   • The experimental results described above, considered with those reported elsewhere, are compatible with the hypothesis that T-antigen, upon reaching a critical concentration, triggers a psychrosensitive (cold-sensitive) event(s) which leads to the activation of the cellular DNA-synthesizing...1970 October, Roger Weil, Jindřich Kára, “Polyoma ‘Tumor Antigen’: An Activator of Chromosome Replication?”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume...

   Synonyms:

   cold-sensitive, cryosensitive

   Antonyms:

   psychrophilic