sensitized
sen suh tahyzd
- v make sensitive or aware
He was not sensitized to her emotional needs - v cause to sense; make sensitive
She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society
My tongue became sensitized to good wine - v make sensitive to a drug or allergen
- v make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
- s having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
- If a woman with Rh-negative blood bears a baby fathered by an Rh-positive man, there is a grave risk that she will become sensitized to the Rh factor in her baby's blood and begin .
- The penicillin was absorbed too rapidly into a system already sensitized to penicillin by previous injections.
- Most interesting were a series of black grey abstractions known as rayograms which are made without a camera, simply by placing various objects on sensitized paper in a dark .