Term: desensitization technique: a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: centering: (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back → 0
Candidate hypernym: western redbud: shrub of western United States having pink or crimson flowers; often forms thickets → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus lespedeza: genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: source code: program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution → 0
Candidate hypernym: self: your consciousness of your own identity → 0
Candidate hypernym: bolus: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine → 0
Candidate hypernym: glucose tolerance test: test of the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates; used in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus → 0
Candidate hypernym: songbird: any bird having a musical call → 0
Candidate hypernym: sketch: a brief literary description → 0
Candidate hypernym: hairy root: a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots → 0