allergy
IPA: ˈæɫɝdʒi
noun
- (pathology, immunology) 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.
- (pathology) Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
- Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.
- (informal) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
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Examples of "allergy" in Sentences
- She has an allergy to cats.
- The most prevalent allergy is hay.
- Because of allergy, stifler occurs.
- It covers the field of allergy and immunology.
- The diagnosis and treatment of ocular allergy.
- The medication may cause skin allergy and sensitization.
- Allergology is the study of allergy and hypersensitivity.
- The allergy itself, the susceptibility, is not a disease.
- He eventually dies at the end of the first series due to a medical allergy.
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