Definition of Sensitising

1. Noun. Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections.

Exact synonyms: Sensitisation, Sensitization, Sensitizing
Generic synonyms: Immunisation, Immunization
Derivative terms: Sensitise, Sensitize

2. Adjective. Making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.
Exact synonyms: Sensitizing
Attributes: Predisposition, Sensitivity
Antonyms: Desensitizing

Definition of Sensitising

1. Verb. (present participle of sensitise) ¹

2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of sensitizing) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sensitising

1. sensitise [v] - See also: sensitise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensitising

sensings
sensism
sensisms
sensist
sensists
sensitisation
sensitisations
sensitise
sensitised
sensitised antigen
sensitised cell
sensitised culture
sensitiser
sensitisers
sensitises
sensitising (current term)
sensitive
sensitive fern
sensitive pea
sensitive plant
sensitive species
sensitively
sensitiveness
sensitivenesses
sensitives
sensitivities
sensitivity
sensitivity and specificity
sensitivity training group
sensitivity training groups

Literary usage of Sensitising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"Several dyes having all these properties show no appreciable sensitising action. Experiments by Dr. E. Vogel on the rate of fading and Ihe sensitising ..."

2. Practical Guide to Photographic & Photomechanical Printing by William Kinnimond Burton (1887)
"sensitising of Paper Pretty much tho ... may bo said of sensitising of paper as of tho production of brown-toned prints. Tho instructions received with tho ..."

3. A Popular Treatise on Photography by Désiré van Monckhoven (1863)
"placed the sink, with a pipe to convey the waste water outside. On one side should be placed the dishes used for nitrate of silver bath, and for sensitising ..."

4. The British Journal of Photographyby Liverpool Photographic Society by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"The process, as before given by me, consists essentially in sensitising plates coated with ordinary negative collodion, containing both iodides and bromides ..."

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