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hypersensitize, v.|haɪpəˈsɛnsɪtaɪz|
[f. hyper- 4 c + sensitize v.]
trans. To render hypersensitive. spec. a. Med. (See hypersensitive a. 2.) b. Photogr. 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). So hyperˈsensitized ppl. a., hyperˈsensitizing vbl. n.
1897G. B. Shaw Let. 16 Apr. (1965) 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. 1914Q. Jrnl. Med. VII. 277 In anaphylaxis the degree of specificity is difficult to determine, as a hypersensitized animal has an increased susceptibility to any toxin. Ibid. 280 A serum may have strong hypersensitizing power for passive anaphylaxis and yet have no precipitating power. 1917E. 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.?? 1920Jrnl. Franklin Inst. CLXXXIX. 25 (heading) Hypersensitizing commercial panchromatic plates. 1929E. 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. 1954tr. L. P. Clerc's Photogr. (ed. 3) viii. 178/2 The first exposure ‘hypersensitizes’ the material towards the second. 1969M. J. Langford Adv. Photogr. viii. 171 ‘Hypersensitizing’ or increasing the speed of an emulsion before camera exposure can be carried out chemically or by means of light. |