sensitization

English

Etymology

From sensitize +‎ -ation.

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Noun

sensitization (countable and uncountable, plural sensitizations)

1. The process of making something sensitive.

Alternative forms

• sensitisation

Derived terms

• allosensitization
• autosensitization
• chemosensitization
• cosensitization
• cross-sensitization
• desensitization, desensitisation
• electrosensitization
• hypersensitization
• hyposensitization
• immunosensitization
• monosensitization
• multisensitization
• photosensitization
• polysensitization
• presensitization
• radiosensitization
• resensitization

Related terms

• sensitive
• sensitize

Translations

process of making something sensitive

Czech: senzibilizace f Finnish: herkistäminen (fi) German: Sensitivierung f Greek: ευαισθητοποίηση (el) f (evaisthitopoíisi) Japanese: 感作 (ja) (kansa) Romanian: sensibilizare (ro) f

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sensitization”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sensitization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.