desensitization
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sɪ noun
1.
the act or process of desensitizing.
2.
Physiology, Medicine/Medical. the elimination or reduction of natural or acquired reactivity or sensitivity to an external stimulus, as an allergen.
3.
Psychiatry. a behavior modification technique, used especially in treating phobias, in which panic or other undesirable emotional response to a given stimulus is reduced or extinguished, especially by repeated exposure to that stimulus.
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desensitize or desensitise (diːˈsɛnsɪˌtaɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to render insensitive or less sensitive: the patient was desensitized to the allergen; to desensitize photographic film |
| 2. | psychol to decrease the abnormal fear in (a person) of a situation or object, by exposing him to it either in reality or in his imagination |
| desensitise or desensitise | |
| —vb | |
| desensiti'zation or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| desensiti'sation or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| de'sensitizer or desensitise | |
| —n | |
| de'sensitiser or desensitise | |
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Desensitization
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
desensitization de·sen·si·ti·za·tion (dē-sěn'sĭ-tĭ-zā'shən)
n.
The reduction or abolition of allergic sensitivity or reactions to a specific allergen. Also called antianaphylaxis.
The mitigation of an individual's emotional response to a distressing stimulus by repeated exposure to or imagination of that stimulus.
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Example sentences
But the desensitization factor of this will conversely be enormous.
Systematic desensitization or exposure therapy may be used to treat phobias.
Regulation of m2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor desensitization by phosphorylation.
Systematic desensitization is a technique used to treat phobias.
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