Reactivity has the following meanings in the field of medicine:

1. The property of responding to the influence of something, chemically or in any other sense.

2. The process of responding to the influence of something. Reactivity comes from the Latin word "re" meaning "again," and the Latin word "actio" meaning "action." Put the words together and you have "action again."

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