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Definition of Sensitizing
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.
Generic synonyms: Immunisation, Immunization
Derivative terms: Sensitise, Sensitize
Definition of Sensitizing
1. Verb. (present participle of sensitize) ¹
2. Adjective. That sensitizes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sensitizing
1. sensitize [v] - See also: sensitize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensitizing
Literary usage of Sensitizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"Alexin and sensitizing Antibodies.—In the immediately preceding sections, we have
dealt solely with immunity as it occurs where soluble toxins play an ..."
2. Three-colour Photography: Three-colour Printing and the Production of by Arthur Hübl (1904)
"Although it cannot be disputed that sensitizing curves are best arrived at by
... HW VOGEL'S sensitizing THEORY. Dr. HW Vogel, the discoverer of colour ..."
3. The Art and Practice of Silver Printing by Henry Peach Robinson, William de Wiveleslie Abney (1881)
"HOW TO KEEP THE sensitizing BATH IN ORDER. ... and if paper were floated on it
in this condition there would be a dark surface and uneven sensitizing. ..."
4. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"When an animal is vaccinated against the cholera vibrio there is formed in the
body a particular substance, the preventive or sensitizing substance, ..."
5. A New Treatise on the Modern Methods of Carbon Printing by Albert Martin Marton (1905)
"CHAPTER X. sensitizing THE TISSUE. sensitizing OPERATIONS. ... great advantage
to incorporate the bichromate or sensitizing agent into the pigment emulsion, ..."
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