allergy
Meanings
Plural: allergies
Noun
- hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity
- A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
- A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body's production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
- Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.
- An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.
Synonyms
allergic reaction, intolerance, type 1 hypersensitivity
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