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hyposensitizing

Variant of hyposensitize

transitive verb hyposensitized, hyposensitizing

to treat with frequent, small injections of an antigen so as to decrease the symptoms of an allergy to that antigen

Origin: hypo- + sensitize

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hyposensitization noun

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