Definition of "sensitized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of sensitize. (verb)
• Made sensitive, especially to some specific agent. (adjective)

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• "A different threat is what's called antibody-mediated rejection, where patients increasingly are "sensitized" - their bodies produce antibodies that are super-vigilant at attacking most available kidneys."
• "Neither am I always satisfied with the ophthalmologist's dictum that there is a defect so slight as to need no correction, being well aware, as I have elsewhere pointed out, that even minute ocular defects are competent mischief-makers when the brain becomes what I may permit myself, using the photographer's language, to call sensitized by disease."
• ""sensitized" - their bodies produce antibodies that are super-vigilant at attacking most available kidneys."