Lexic.us

Definition of Sensitising

1. Adjective. Making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli.

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

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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