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Rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1862, originally in photography, noun of action from sensitize .
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Sensitization is a non-associative learning process in which repeated administrations of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response. Sensitization often is characterized by an enhancement of response to a whole class of stimuli in ...
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n. the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) [syn: sensitisation ] (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) [syn: sensitisation ] rendering an organism sensitive ...
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alt. The process of making something sensitive. n. The process of making something sensitive.
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In practice sensitization and dishabituation are rather closely related processes.
Although as long ago as the early 1970s it had been shown that protein synthesis inhibitors were without effect on habituation and sensitization, it was not until the mid-1980s that Kandel turned his attention to the longer-term cellular processes.
The capacity to show habituation, he observed, occurs relatively early on in the development of the baby Aplysia, while sensitization does not appear until a relatively late stage.
From this and other types of experiment, it is beyond dispute that, even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists, Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual, olfactory and even touch cues.
Despite the remarkable analogy between habituation and sensitization in the intact Aplysia and the responses of its isolated sensory-motor synapse, which certainly fulfill some of my criteria, there is a conspicuous gap in the logic.
Can habituation, sensitization, or associative learning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex occur in Aplysia if the key sensory-motor synapses are lesioned (Criterion Five)?
He heard Cara and Jo, speaking terse, quiet phrases that David himself barely understood and Bakhtiian certainly could not understand: IV, anesthesia, transfusion, systolic pressure, basal temperature, placenta abruptio, antibody sensitization.