Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, process, or result of sensitizing, or rendering sensitive.
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- noun The process of making something
sensitive .
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- noun the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
- noun rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
- noun (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just like Chrysanthemum pyrethrins, it can cause skin sensitization (rash) in certain people.
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This sensitization is unpredictable based on frequency or duration of freon abuse.
Freon Abuse 2010
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Just like Chrysanthemum pyrethrins, it can cause skin sensitization (rash) in certain people.
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The association between soy consumption and peanut sensitization is not causal but merely a result of preferential use of soy milk in infants with a personal or family history of cow's milk allergy.
Soy Milk Doesn't Start Peanut Allergies Steve Carper 2008
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Using a quantal analysis, we found that the synaptic facilitation characteristic of sensitization is presynaptic and that inhibitors of serotonin block this presynaptic facilitation.
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In 1972, Schwartz, Howard Cedar, and I found that stimulation of the pathway involved in sensitization increased the level of cAMP in the entire abdominal ganglion.
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We had earlier found in Aplysia that long-term sensitization involved a persistent increase in the strength of the same synaptic connection altered by the shortterm process - the connections between the sensory and motor neurons of the gill-withdrawal reflex.
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We found that long-term sensitization in Aplysia is similarly dependent on protein synthesis, whereas short-term sensitization is not.
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The food panel tests often yield false-positive results called "sensitization."
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Indeed, there's a well-established phenomenon called sensitization, or sometimes the whetting effect: if you picture yourself eating chocolate, your __________ for it increases, and such thoughts can cause you to __________ salivate.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO 2010
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