sensitization
- n the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
- n (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
- n rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
- Though he has no degrees in the subject, he likes to talk about such "therapies" as electrosleep, vivid confrontation, megavitamins and hypode-sensitization.
- But for each obvious reaction there are at least four cases where incompatibility causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or .
- Then, instead of immunity, allergic sensitization is set up.