Allergy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An abnormally high sensitivity to certain substances, such as pollens, foods, or microorganisms. Common indications of allergy may include sneezing, itching, and skin rashes.
  • n. Informal An adverse sentiment; antipathy: an allergy to cocktail parties.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
  • n. Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.
  • n. An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. hypersensitivity to a particular substance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity
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