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Hypersensitivity

This word is not acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. any heightened immune response to an antigen; an allergy

n. extreme sensitivity

n. pathological sensitivity

"Type I, immediate anaphylactic hypersensitivity is characterised by the production of IgE antibodies against foreign proteins (Platts-Mills 2002)."

Words that are more generic or abstract

sensibility sensitivity sensitiveness

hypersensitivity pneumonitis

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