INDIVIDUALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does individualize mean? 

• INDIVIDUALIZE (verb)
  The verb INDIVIDUALIZE has 2 senses:

1. make or mark or treat as individual

2. make personal or more personal

  Familiarity information: INDIVIDUALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIVIDUALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they individualize    ... he / she / it individualizes   
Past simple: individualized   
Past participle: individualized   
-ing form: individualizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or mark or treat as individual

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

individualise; individualize

Context example:

The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone

Hypernyms (to "individualize" is one way to...):

differentiate; distinguish; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart (mark as different)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

individual (a single organism)

individualization (discriminating the individual from the generic group or species)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make personal or more personal

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

individualise; individualize; personalise; personalize

Context example:

personalized service

Hypernyms (to "individualize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

individual (a human being)

 Context examples 

An individualized education plan describes which special services the child needs and how those needs will be met.

(Individualized education plan, NCI Dictionary)

People have very individualized inflammatory responses to eating a high-fat meal, according to a new study.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The findings suggest that measuring and targeting TMAO levels—something doctors can do with a simple blood test—may be a promising new strategy for individualizing diets and helping to prevent heart disease.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Also called individualized education plan.

(IEP, NCI Dictionary)

This can be used to select EGFR kinase inhibitors that bind in a similar manner as this tracer and may allow individualized therapy for patients that respond well to these types of EGFR kinase inhibitors.

(Fluorine F 18 Fluoro-PEG6-IPQA, NCI Thesaurus)

The Histology and Immunohistochemistry Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with histological and immunohistochemical technical services and expert histopathological and embryological advice, including frozen sections, slides preparation and assessment, specialized histochemical staining, antigen detection, individualized immunohistochemical assays, specialized assays: TUNEL, BrdU, beta galactosidase, etc. interpretation assistance and confirmation of diagnosis.

(Histology and Immunohistochemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Animal Barrier Shared Resource provides for acquisition and maintenance of both pathogen-free and infected laboratory animals, including immunodeficient strains, while permitting supervised access for investigators, stable husbandry conditions, and individualized daily health care for animals.

(Barrier Animal Facility Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Individualized education plans are covered in the U.S. law, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

(Individualized education plan, NCI Dictionary)