Definition of Desensitizes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of desensitize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desensitizes

1. desensitize [v] - See also: desensitize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desensitizes

desensitisation technique
desensitise
desensitised
desensitiser
desensitisers
desensitises
desensitising
desensitization
desensitization procedure
desensitization technique
desensitizations
desensitize
desensitized
desensitizer
desensitizers
desensitizes (current term)
desensitizing
deserialise
deserialised
deserialises
deserialising
deserialization
deserializations
deserialize
deserialized
deserializer
deserializes
deserializing
deserpidine
desert

Literary usage of Desensitizes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The response of chromaffin cells to continuous nicotinic stimulation, secretion of catecholamines, desensitizes within a few minutes. ..."

2. Home study course in osteopathy by Columbia College of Osteopathy (1902)
"On the other hand, a firm, steady, deep pressure desensitizes or deadens sensation, and if continued for some time will produce numbness. ..."

3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"However, in the excised uterus, one dose of the antigen desensitizes the uterus to further doses (but not to normal scrum). The antigen therefore destroys ..."

4. Smokeless Tobacco Or Health: An International Perspective by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... so far eluded detection because it desensitizes extremely rapidly in the presence of even low concentrations of nicotine (Couturier et al., 1990). ..."

5. School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings edited by Michael Castle (2001)
"This proliferation of violent images desensitizes children to violence and the finality of violent acts. The entertainment industry must step forward and ..."

6. Status of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1998)
"Two, it has a self-limiting toxicity, because it desensitizes the acetylcholine receptors, and so it kind of self limits its own toxicity. ..."

7. Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil by Ben Penglase (1994)
"Padre Julio stated: Torture is a common practice, and a practice which desensitizes the adolescents. Also, boys who kill and those who commit petty thefts, ..."

8. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"We have reasons, however, for believing that total abstinence from the offending protein for a long interval automatically desensitizes the patient for that ..."

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