| Results of an experiment published earlier this year by researchers at Cambridge University showed that exposing peanut-sensitive children to tiny amounts of the nuts can, over a period, slowly desensitise them. |
| It could desensitise yet others to violence in general. |
| This, we were told, can desensitise officers, leading to fatigue, lack of ability to cope and, significantly, lack of ability to empathise. |
| Local anesthetics are used to locally desensitise the tissues to allow surgical interventions. |
| The sensors are sensitive to certain products which could desensitise them: silicone emissions in concentrations greater than 10 ppm, chlorinated or sulphurated products in concentrations greater than 100 ppm. |
| Low dose antidepressants and antiepileptic pills can help desensitise the nerve. |
