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It refers to the process of making someone less sensitive or less affected by something, often through repeated exposure or conditioning. Example: The therapist used a desensitisation technique to help the patient overcome their fear of spiders. By gradually introducing the patient to images and eventually real-life encounters with spiders, they were able to reduce their anxiety and become desensitised to their fear.
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desensitisation
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The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.
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Others hear lyrics full of grandstanding and aggression (quite frequently sexual), a deadened desensitisation, and conclude they want no part.
Allergy tests and desensitisation regimes if ordered by doctors, which is a big if identify and fortify the people most at risk.
But at the International Congress of Genetics, held earlier this month in Melbourne, Australia, a group of researchers presented evidence that it was actually the evolution of colour vision that caused creeping desensitisation to odours.People detect smells when particular molecules lock on to receptor proteins embedded in the lining of the nose.
Allison O'Keefe Wright, the report's editor, blames desensitisation.
Patients such as Mr Ellison are referred to the clinic by their GP for a course of desensitisation.
There were treatments such as desensitisation, which meant being subjected to white noise at gradually increasing volumes to readjust your ears to normal sound, but they were extremely expensive and at that time I was pretty broke," he says.
Treatment is either by avoiding the trigger food, or going through a process of desensitisation where tiny amounts are introduced gradually into the diet to build up tolerance.
I told her that he was having EMDR [eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing], a treatment for removing trauma.
The discourse was extremely rightwing... [And] the very fact that [Palestinians were] described as 'uninvolved' rather than as civilians, and the desensitisation to the surging number of dead on the Palestinian side.
It's natural enough that we should look at the sequence of events – exposure to porn, desensitisation, erectile dysfunction – and see an obvious culprit.
Adapted from a novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation deals directly with the process of indoctrination and desensitisation practised by certain irregular militias.
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