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UK
/sˌɛnsɪtaɪzˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
- (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
- rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
How To Use sensitisation In A Sentence
- This separation has not resulted in moral desensitisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- Doctors at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge said they had developed a successful desensitisation programme which builds up tolerance in patients by slowly exposing them to tiny doses of peanut.
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- Treatment usually consists of antihistamines, decongestants, nasal sprays, eye drops and, occasionally, desensitisation or steroid jabs.
- He also called on the media to assist in sensitisation programmes especially on ensuring that correct taxes were remitted and consumers received proof of purchase from sellers.
- And here you have the classic components of what Kelman called ‘crimes of obedience’: authorisation, de - sensitisation, and depersonalisation.
- It is metabolised by the skin cells' normal biochemical pathways within 48 hours and so does not lead to prolonged photosensitisation.
- Sensitisation to glyceryl monothioglycolate is common, and in 1995 hair cosmetics manufacturers agreed with the hairdressers' guild to stop the use of this allergen in permanent wave solutions.
- Consider referral to an allergist for desensitisation therapy.
- War has destroyed health services in South Kivu and prevented local and international organisations from running HIV/AIDS sensitisation programmes in rural areas.