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In medicine, to make (a person, animal, or tissue) nonreactive or nonallergic to a substance by removing the antibodies from affected cells or tissues: In an effort to control his allergies, Jason and the doctor went through a process of desensitization to eliminate the antibodies that were causing his sneezing.
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-ation, -ization (-iz[e] + -ation); -isation (British spelling variation)
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senso-, sens-, sensi-, sensori-, sent-
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reciprocal inhibition and desensitization (s) (noun); reciprocal inhibitions and desensitizations (pl)
In psychiatry, a form of behavior therapy in which the patient, while made to relax in comfortable surroundings, is gradually exposed to increasing amounts of anxiety-provoking stimuli.
In this way the patient can tolerate these stimuli and may eventually learn to dissociate the anxiety from them.
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habit-, hab-, -hibit; habili-, habil-
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