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Definition of Desensitizing
1. Adjective. Making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.
Attributes: Predisposition, Sensitivity
Similar to: Numbing
Antonyms: Sensitizing
Definition of Desensitizing
1. Verb. (present participle of desensitize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desensitizing
1. desensitize [v] - See also: desensitize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desensitizing
Literary usage of Desensitizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"... intoxicating, and desensitizing doses of antigen and the period of incubation
have been worked out in a series of studies by Weil,1 both in the living ..."
2. Horgan's Half-tone and Photomechanical Processes by Stephen Henry Horgan (1913)
"Their use on a metal or stone surface is called ' desensitizing. ... The following
are the desensitizing solutions most frequently used by offset-press ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"Besides filtration, special means have been sought for desensitizing the skin,
among them being the production of superficial anaemia by the application of ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"This fact suggested the idea that all or part of the desensitizing action of the
water or solution was due to its pressure exerted upon the local nerves or ..."
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