hypersensitizev.
/hʌɪpəˈsɛnsɪtʌɪz/ transitive. To render hypersensitive. spec.
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a. Medicine. (See hypersensitive adj. 2.)
b. Photography. To increase the speed of (a photographic film or plate, or its emulsion) by immersion in a special solution, exposure to light, or other means, usually before it is exposed in the taking of a photograph (cf. latensification n.).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [verb (transitive)]
mercurialize1843
actinize1844
albumenize1850
sensitize1851
wax1853
develop1859
sensibilize1860
organify1873
back1878
salt1878
excite1879
talc1888
alum1889
bleach1889
fume1890
orthochromatize1890
flash1903
pre-expose1925
hypersensitize1954
panchromatize1960
1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Apr. (1965) I. 746 Teddy, though hypersensitized..and petulated by more luxury than was good for him in the way of a mammy seems highly and nervously intelligent.
1914 Q. Jrnl. Med. 7 280 A serum may have strong hypersensitizing power for passive anaphylaxis and yet have no precipitating power.
1954 tr. L. P. Clerc's Photogr. (ed. 3) viii. 178/2 The first exposure ‘hypersensitizes’ the material towards the second.
Derivatives
hyperˈsensitized adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [adjective]
mercurialized1648
ferro-prussiate1815
sensitive1839
albumen1850
sensitized1851
bromized1853
waxed1853
salted1855
collodionized1859
collodioned1870
colour-sensitive1879
colour-sensitized1888
unsensitized1889
fumed1890
silvered1890
unfumed1891
orthochromatized1902
backed1906
hypersensitized1914
hypersensitive1937
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [adjective] > hypersensitivity
Head1893
hypersensitive1899
hypersensitized1914
hypersusceptible1914
atopic1923
1914 Q. Jrnl. Med. 7 277 In anaphylaxis the degree of specificity is difficult to determine, as a hypersensitized animal has an increased susceptibility to any toxin.
1917 E. Pound Let. 10 Nov. (1971) 123 Still, what the hell else are you? I mean apart from being a citizen, a good fellow.., a grouch, a slightly hypersensitized animal, etc.??
1929 E. J. Wall Pract. Color Photogr. (ed. 2) xiii. 173 The exposure with these hypersensitized plates and the aesculin filter is about one-tenth of that required for the normal plate.
hyperˈsensitizing n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [noun]
mercurializing1841
mercurialization1843
albumenizing1851
sensitizing1851
sensibilization1855
sensitization1857
albuminization1868
fuming1889
aluming1896
orthochromatizing1903
lenticulation1916
hypersensitizing1920
panchromatizing1922
hypersensitization1933
pre-exposure1937
latensification1940
1920 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 189 25 (heading) Hypersensitizing commercial panchromatic plates.
1969 M. J. Langford Advanced Photogr. viii. 171 ‘Hypersensitizing’ or increasing the speed of an emulsion before camera exposure can be carried out chemically or by means of light.
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