sensitising

Thân thiện

A new laundry detergent can be sensitising to the skin.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli: Describes something that causes an organism or person to become more reactive or responsive to a specific agent or situation.

2. Noun:

   • Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections: The process or act of making an organism allergically sensitive to a substance, often through administered doses.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • The sensitising agent in the chemical caused a skin reaction.
  • The documentary had a sensitising effect on the public's opinion.

• Noun:

  • The sensitising of the laboratory mice was necessary for the allergy study.
  • The procedure involves the sensitising of the patient to the allergen.

Advanced Usage

• In immunology: The process where an initial exposure to an antigen primes the immune system for a stronger response upon subsequent exposure.
  • The sensitising phase is critical for the development of some types of hypersensitivity.

Variants and Related Words

• Sensitize (verb): To make sensitive.
  • The training aims to sensitize staff to cultural differences.
• Sensitization (noun): The process of becoming sensitive.
  • Repeated exposure led to sensitization to the pollen.
• Desensitising (adjective): Making less sensitive.
• Hypersensitising (adjective): Making excessively sensitive.

Synonyms

• Priming
• Predisposing
• Conditioning

Antonyms

• Desensitising
• Numbing
• Deadening

Related Phrases

• Sensitising exposure: An initial contact that induces sensitivity.
  • The sensitising exposure occurred months before the allergic reaction.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli

Noun

1. rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections

Từ đồng nghĩa

• sensitizing
• sensitization
• sensitisation