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Definition of Desensitizes
1. desensitize [v] - See also: desensitize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desensitizes
Literary usage of Desensitizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The response of chromaffin cells to continuous nicotinic stimulation, secretion
of catecholamines, desensitizes within a few minutes. ..."
2. Home study course in osteopathy by Columbia College of Osteopathy (1902)
"On the other hand, a firm, steady, deep pressure desensitizes or deadens sensation,
and if continued for some time will produce numbness. ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"However, in the excised uterus, one dose of the antigen desensitizes the uterus
to further doses (but not to normal scrum). The antigen therefore destroys ..."
4. Smokeless Tobacco Or Health: An International Perspective by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... so far eluded detection because it desensitizes extremely rapidly in the
presence of even low concentrations of nicotine (Couturier et al., 1990). ..."
5. School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings edited by Michael Castle (2001)
"This proliferation of violent images desensitizes children to violence and the
finality of violent acts. The entertainment industry must step forward and ..."
6. Status of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1998)
"Two, it has a self-limiting toxicity, because it desensitizes the acetylcholine
receptors, and so it kind of self limits its own toxicity. ..."
7. Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil by Ben Penglase (1994)
"Padre Julio stated: Torture is a common practice, and a practice which desensitizes
the adolescents. Also, boys who kill and those who commit petty thefts, ..."
8. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"We have reasons, however, for believing that total abstinence from the offending
protein for a long interval automatically desensitizes the patient for that ..."
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