0 past simple and past participle of desensitize
1 to cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before:
Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it.
Such an opsin could possibly respond to the 360-nm stimuli but should also be desensitized by our strong orange adapting light.
This is how the characters communicate - through shock, demanding repulsion as the only possible, desensitized response.
First, one or more photoreceptor types can be desensitized by adaptation thereby leaving the remaining photoreceptors to respond to the stimulus.
Moreover, children who, as a result of their risky or impulsive behavior, place themselves in threatening or dangerous situations might gradually become further desensitized to stress, because of habituation.
In the absence of such a mechanism, all cone pathways would tend to be desensitized together by increases in the light levels of 580-nm background stimuli.
I think that we become so desensitized to them that we don't even see them for what they are.
Failing this, it must be assumed that desensitized nitroglycerin is substantially more difficult to detonate, possibly rendering it useless as an explosive for practical application.
Early in its history, it was discovered that liquid nitroglycerin can be desensitized by cooling it to about.
