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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sensitize . - adjective Made
sensitive , especially to some specific agent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
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Examples
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A different threat is what's called antibody-mediated rejection, where patients increasingly are "sensitized" - their bodies produce antibodies that are super-vigilant at attacking most available kidneys.
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A different threat is what's called antibody-mediated rejection, where patients increasingly are "sensitized" - their bodies produce antibodies that are super-vigilant at attacking most available kidneys.
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Neither am I always satisfied with the ophthalmologist's dictum that there is a defect so slight as to need no correction, being well aware, as I have elsewhere pointed out, that even minute ocular defects are competent mischief-makers when the brain becomes what I may permit myself, using the photographer's language, to call sensitized by disease.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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"sensitized" - their bodies produce antibodies that are super-vigilant at attacking most available kidneys.
Chicago Defender 2008
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These tests can only show whether someone is "sensitized" to peanuts, meaning that their immune system has an abnormal response to the food.
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You become "sensitized" to fructose as time goes by, and more sensitive to its toxic effects as well.
This Sweetener Is Far Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup Dr. Joseph Mercola 2010
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You become "sensitized" to fructose as time goes by, and more sensitive to its toxic effects as well.
Dr. Joseph Mercola: This Sweetener Is Far Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup 2010
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These tests can only show whether someone is "sensitized" to peanuts, meaning that their immune system has an abnormal response to the food.
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I think the revelation of the recent "Breaking Home Ties" forgery recently kind of sensitized us to look out for anomalies.
“Soda Jerk” Not the Post Cover James Gurney 2009
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I may have been "sensitized" because of my knowledge and prejudice of German history, but I just can't ignore ´certain things, like when my father-in-law calls me the "Hausdame" out of earshot.
Is Germany . . . ? C N Heidelberg 2008
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