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allergy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun allergy has 1 sense
- allergy(n = noun.state) allergic reaction - hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity; Array has particulars: food allergy, atopic allergy, atopy, immediate allergy, type i allergic reaction, serum disease, serum sickness, delayed allergy, type iv allergic reaction
is a kind of hypersensitivity reaction
Derived forms adjective allergic2, adjective allergic1, noun allergist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
allergy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 Med. a condition of reacting adversely to certain substances, esp. particular foods, pollen, fur, or dust.
2 colloq. an antipathy.
1 Med. a condition of reacting adversely to certain substances, esp. particular foods, pollen, fur, or dust.
2 colloq. an antipathy.
Derivative
allergist n.
Etymology
G Allergie, after Energie ENERGY, f. Gk allos other
THESAURUS
allergy
abhorrence, abnormality, abomination, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergen, allergic disease, allergic disorder, anaphylaxis, antagonism, antipathy, asthma, atrophy, aversion, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, cold sweat, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, conjunctivitis, considerateness, cosmetic dermatitis, creeping flesh, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delicacy, disability, disease, disgust, disorder, distemper, eczema, empathy, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enmity, epidemic disease, exquisiteness, fineness, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hate, hatred, hay fever, hereditary disease, hives, horror, hostility, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, iatrogenic disease, identification, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, irritability, loathing, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, mortal horror, muscular disease, nausea, nervousness, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, pandemic disease, passibility, pathological condition, pathology, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, plant disease, pollinosis, prickliness, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, rejection, repugnance, repulsion, respiratory disease, responsiveness, revulsion, rockiness, rose cold, secondary disease, seediness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, shuddering, sickishness, sickness, signs, soreness, supersensitivity, sympathy, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, tetchiness, the pip, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, urogenital disease, urticaria, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease
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