Look up: desensitization

1. Desensitization
   [medicine] For medical purposes, desensitization is a method to reduce or eliminate an organism`s negative reaction to a substance or stimulus. For example, if a person with diabetes mellitus has a bad allergic reaction to taking a full dose of beef insulin, the doctor gives the person a ver...
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2. Desensitization
   [psychology] Animals can also be desensitized to their rational or irrational fears. A race horse who fears the starting gate can be desensitized to the fearful elements (the creak of the gate, the starting bell, the enclosed space) one at a time, in small doses or at a distance. Clay et al....
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3. Desensitization
   [telecommunications] For telecommunications, desensitization is a form of electromagnetic interference where a radio receiver is unable to receive a weak radio signal that it might otherwise be able to receive when there is no interference. This is caused by a nearby transmitter with a stron...
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4. desensitization
   some theorists argue that the constant media diet of violence desensitizes audiences (makes them less sensitive) to real human suffering. It is hard to find proof for the theory, though the practice of systematic desensitization in behaviour modification may lend incidental support to the theory. Be...
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5. desensitization
   [n] - the process of reducing sensitivity
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6. Desensitization
   the blocking of painful stimuli which cause dentinal hypersensitivity.
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7. desensitization
   a way to reduce or stop a response such as an allergic reaction to something. For example, if someone has an allergic reaction to something, the doctor gives the person a very small amount of the substance at first to increase one's tolerance. Over a period of time, larger doses are given until the ...
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8. desensitization
   Suppression of sensitivity of an organism to an allergen to which the organism has been exposed previously.
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9. desensitization
   heating an aluminium alloy for a relatively long period at a temperature usually above 200 deg C to reduce its susceptibility to stress corrosion and to inter-granular corrosion as a result of heating at intermediate temperatures for long periods Category: Iron and steel industries
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10. desensitization
    In a general sense: see adaptation. Immunologically, the term is used to mean the administration of a graded series of doses of an antigen to which there is an immediate hypersensitivity response. The technique is used in the treatment of allergy and works by inducing the production of blocking antibody (IgG) that inhibits IgE production or blocks IgE binding.
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11. desensitization
    1. The reduction or abolition of allergic sensitivity or reactions to the specific antigen (allergen). ... Synonym: ananaphylaxis, antianaphylaxis. ... 2. The act of removing an emotional complex. ... Synonym: hyposensitization. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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12. desensitization
    desensitisation noun the process of reducing sensitivity; `the patient was desensitized to the allergen`
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13. desensitization
    (de-sen″sĭ-tĭ-za´shәn) the prevention or reduction of immediate hypersensitivity by administration of graded doses of allergen; see also immunotherapy. Called also hyposensitization. in behavior therapy, the treatment of phobias and related disorders by intentionally exposing the patient, i...
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14. desensitization
    (from the article `mental disorder`) ...to eliminate the phobia by teaching the patient how to face those situations that clearly trigger discomfort. The exposure of the patient to the ... ...extinction of phobias in children by gradual desensitization. Modern behaviour therapy began with the description by the South African ... ...p...
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15. desensitization
    treatment that attempts to eliminate allergic reactions, as of hay fever or bronchial asthma, by a series of injections in graded strengths of the ... [3 related articles]
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16. desensitization
    the prevention or reduction of immediate hypersensitivity reactions by administration of graded doses of allergen; called also hyposensitization and immunotherapy.
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17. desensitization
    desensitization In medicine, to make (a person, animal, or tissue) nonreactive or nonallergic to a substance by removing the antibodies from sensitized cells.
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18. desensitization
    a reduction of the wanted output of a receiver due to an unwanted signal
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19. desensitization
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-sen′si-ti-zā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The reduction or abolition of allergic sensitivity or reactions to the specific antigen (allergen). 2. The act of removing an emotional complex. Synonyms: antianaphylaxis
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