Sensitizes

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of sensitize form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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"Treatment involves giving patients an infused drug that sensitizes human tissue to light. Doctors then illuminate the prostate, where the cancer is located. The light activates the creation of oxygen molecules, called free radicals, that cut off the blood supply to the cancer, killing the harmful cells."

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