sensitized

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The US may be more de-sensitized to loss of life than pre-911, but it's still a Big Deal(tm).

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Made sensitive, especially to some specific agent.

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adjective

Made sensitive, especially to some specific agent.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for sensitized.

adjective

Made sensitive, especially to some specific agent.

Example sentences

The US may be more de-sensitized to loss of life than pre-911, but it's still a Big Deal(tm).

If you're going to be a startup person, you are going to become over-sensitized to opportunity costs.

If they were not, during this fight, sufficiently sensitized to the problems of men, can you really blame them?

The point was to make sure that a 48-year old pasty accountant and his kids are de-sensitized.

If you don't wear the right personal protective equipment when using it, you can quickly become sensitized to it.

Under these highly sensitized conditions even a reasonable order, as long as it is an order, will be rejected.

Moreover, asthmatic patients and allergen-sensitized mice expressed more CaSR in ASMs than did their healthy counterparts.

Some of use became sensitized to automated updates and no convenient, or at all officially provided, way to roll back.

Even tits, which I'd normally like would be more of a distraction (and no, it's not due to not being de-sensitized to them: you can never be de-sensitized to tits).

It appears a few people have been hyper-sensitized to a bad definition of racism.

Epoxy resin is an algerin which is why you get sensitized to it.

Calcilytics also reduced airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in allergen-sensitized mice in vivo.

Quote examples

The immune system can be affected by the nervous system, and I could see the olfactory system becoming sensitized after "learning" a correlation between a chemical and nausea, etc...

Even if you developed a vaccine which sensitized the immune system to one type of cancer, chances are the "type" would be limited to pretty much just the 1 person you tested it on.

I've been screwed over more than once by "medical science" and medical "best practices", so I have been somewhat sensitized to incongruities in this area.

I feel like we've seen so many (genuine) cases of government overstep that we've been sensitized to see any crime involving the internet as "blown out of proportion." What this guy did was no better than a stereotypical Mafia protection racket.