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Definition of Sensitises
1. sensitise [v] - See also: sensitise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensitises
Literary usage of Sensitises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhythm, Music and Education by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1921)
"Reflection tempers and refines the imagination; imagination gives life to style,
and emotion ennobles and sensitises the products of sensation, reflection, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"Illness sensitises a man for observation, like a photographic plate." " Lace often
seems to me as though it were made of women's tears. ..."
3. The Essentials of Psychology by Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1920)
"The greater sensitiveness of the eye after long adaptation to the dark comes from
the increase in the amount of visual purple which sensitises the rods, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The main points established by previous observers may be summarised as follows : (1)
The dyes that act rs sensitises are readily affected by light when they ..."
5. The British Journal of Photographyby Liverpool Photographic Society by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"... inter alia, in this—that he specially mentions in his patent that he coats
the plate with plain gelatine and sensitises it afterwards, whereas in those ..."
6. The Vegetable Proteins by Thomas Burr Osborne (1909)
"The toxic effect of these protein solutions appears to be specific, since the
serum of a horse sensitises the animal to a second dose of horse serum only, ..."
7. The Vegetable Proteins by Thomas Burr Osborne (1909)
"The toxic effect of these protein solutions appears to be specific, since the
serum of a horse sensitises the animal to a second dose of horse serum only, ..."
8. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1896)
"I will mention, as an instance, the contact of dry insect, which, as I have found,
de-sensitises the stratum by the oxidation of the organic matter, ..."
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