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sensitize
[sen-si-tahyz]
verb (used with object)
to render sensitive.
Photography.Ģżto render (a film or the like) sensitive to light or other forms of radiant energy.
Immunology.Ģżto render sensitive to an antigenic substance.
verb (used without object)
to become sensitized.
sensitize
/ Ė²õɲŌ²õÉŖĖ³Ł²¹ÉŖ³ś /
verb
to make or become sensitive
(tr) to render (an individual) sensitive to a drug, allergen, etc
(tr) photog to make (a material) sensitive to light or to other actinic radiation, esp to light of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion often containing special chemicals, such as dyes
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- sensitizer noun
- antisensitizer noun
- antisensitizing adjective
- nonsensitized adjective
- nonsensitizing adjective
- oversensitize verb
- resensitize verb (used with object)
- unsensitize verb (used with object)
- Ė²õ±š²Ō²õ¾±Ė³Ł¾±³ś±š°ł noun
- Ė²õ±š²Ō²õ¾±³Ł¾±Ė³ś²¹³Ł¾±“Ē²Ō noun
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of sensitize1
Example Sentences
These efforts required sensitizing all employees to their own personal prejudices and offending practices.
āThroughout California, throughout the West, throughout communities that have had wildfire experience, we are particularly primed and sensitized to that news,ā she said.
The findings also encourage the development of drugs that target ARID1A and related proteins as a way of sensitizing other tumors to immunotherapy.
The researchers conclude that once mast cells are sensitized, diverse xenobiotics that never bothered the person previously and do not bother most people trigger multisystem symptoms that wax and wane over time.
āWhat this bill will do is help educate and sensitize electeds, judges, police, teachers, media and civil society in to what constitutes antisemitism,ā Berman said.
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