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Definitions: Sensitization |
SensitizationNoun1. The state of being sensitive (as to an antigen). 2. Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | The introduction of impurity atoms with energy-levels deep in the band gap in order to capture holes and increase the free-electron lifetime by several orders of magnitude, so increasing the photosensitivity; e. g. gold doping of germanium crystals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | 1. administration of antigen to induce a primary immune response; priming; immunization. 2. exposure to allergen that results in the development of hypersensitivity. 3. the coating of erythrocytes with antibody so that they are subject to lysis by complement in the presence of homologous antigen, the first stage of a complement fixation test. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SensitizationSynonyms: sensitisation (n), sensitising (n), sensitizing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sensitization |
| English words defined with "sensitization": schistosome dermatitis, swimmer's itch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sensitization": Dermatitis, Allergic Contact, Dianisidine, Dinitrochlorobenzene ♦ Local Lymph Node Assay ♦ non-allergic dermatitis ♦ occupational dermatitis, occupational skin disease ♦ photoallergy ♦ Skin Irritancy Tests. (references) |
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Health | It also reduces the risk of hepatitis and sensitization to transplant antigens associated with transfusion. (references) | |
Nonhemolytic febrile reactions occur in 1 to 2 percent of recipients due to sensitization to leukocyte antigens. (references) | ||
While tolerance to the high can occur, users can also become more sensitive (sensitization) to cocaine's anesthetic and convulsant effects, without incre?g the dose taken. (references) | ||
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea attributes lapses to excessive zeal on the part of local authorities and promises better control and sensitization. (references) |
Women | Burkina Faso | The Government continued its sensitization campaign regarding the deleterious effects of this practice. (references) |
Swaziland | Although gender sensitization is not part of the formal school curriculum, some schools have organized debates and other mechanisms to address gender issues. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sensitization" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sensitization" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "sensitization": de-sensitization, Repression-Sensitization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rh sensitization | 3 |
sensitization | 2 |
covert sensitization | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sensitization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sensibilisering (sensitisation, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sensibilisatie (sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | herkistys (sensitisation), herkistyminen (during sensitisation at the critical temperature interval this carbon is precipitated in situ, proneness to intergranular corrosion after a solubilising and sensitising treatment, sensitisation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sensibilisation (sensitisation, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sensibilismus, sensibilisierung (sensitisation, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθιστό ευπαθή, ευαισθητοποίηση (sensitisation, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sensibilizzazione (sensitisation, sensitizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 感光 (exposure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か""う (call to surrender, completion, consider, customary practice, decisive action, encouragement of industry, examination and correction, exposure, gagging, going slowly, habit, hushing up, issue, keeping silent, kindness, largeheartedness, publication, sightseeing, traditional event). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 민감" (sensitisation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensitizationsay sensibilizaçao (sensitisation), sensibilização (sensitizing), sensibilização, administração de um antigénio para induzir uma resposta imunitária. (various references) активизация (activation, actuation, sensitizing). (various references) činjenje osetljivim. (various references) sensibilizacion (sensitisation), sensibilización (sensitizing). (various references) sensibilisering (sensitisation, sensitized, sensitizing). (various references) підвищення чутливості. (various references) sự l m cho dễ cảm động, sự gây xúc cảm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sensitization": sensitizations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sensitization": desensitization, hypersensitization, hyposensitization, photosensitization. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sensitization": desensitizations, hypersensitizations, hyposensitizations, photosensitizations. (additional references) | |
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"Sensitization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hesititation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t-z" | |
-3 letters: insanities. | |
-4 letters: antinoise, inanities, initiates, insistent, intonates, nattiness, sanitizes, sensation, stannites, tinstones. | |
-5 letters: antsiest, astonies, azotises, enations, initiate, inosites, insanest, instants, instates, intonate, isatines, nastiest, noisiest, onanists, osteitis, ostinati, sanities, sanitise, sanitize, satinets, sonatine, stanines, stannite, stations, stoniest, teniasis, tennists, tensions, tininess, tinniest, tinstone, titaness, tontines, zaniness, zoisites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-i-n-n-o-s-s-t-t-z" | |
+1 letter: sensitizations. | |
+2 letters: desensitization. | |
+3 letters: desensitizations. | |
+4 letters: hyposensitization, institutionalizes. | |
+5 letters: constitutionalizes, hypersensitization, hyposensitizations, photosensitization. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n s i t i z a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0069 0074 0069 007A 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718085758675926786758180 |
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