For nearly a year, the clinic has been using virtual reality to
desensitize patients to their fears and anxieties.
For most of the past year, the university's main teaching hospital has been using an advanced virtual reality program to help
desensitize patients to experiences that provoke fear and anxiety.
For example, studies in rodents and a few people in the 1980s and 1990s suggested that insulin, given before diabetes developed, might
desensitize the immune system to the hormone and the beta cells that make it--and thus protect the pancreas.
During the early 1990s, many soldiers reported that efforts were being made during escape and evasion training to
desensitize them to the idea of female soldiers being held captive.
The "climax control" condoms contain Benzocaine, a mild anesthetic, to
desensitize the penis and delay the man's climax.
Capsaicin is thought to
desensitize gastric nociceptive C fibers, which carry pain sensations to the central nervous system.
BEE POLLEN: Many people report that their allergies improve when they take local bee pollen or honey to
desensitize themselves.
Because bruise and hollow heart look similar to peel, processors have usually had to
desensitize their automatic vision systems or have had to revert to manual inspection when running peel-on product.