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allergy

allergy

English

Noun

allergy ‎(plural allergies)

(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.
He has an allergy to reality TV.

Synonyms

(disorder of the immune system): type 1 hypersensitivity
(hypersensitivity): intolerance

Hypernyms

(disorder of the immune system): hypersensitivity

Derived terms

terms derived from allergy (noun)

Translations

disorder of the immune system

Albanian: alergji (sq) f
Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f ‎(ʾarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f ‎(ḥassāsiyya)
Armenian: ալերգիա ‎(alergia)
Asturian: alerxa f
Azeri: allergiya
Belarusian: алергі́я f ‎(aljerhíja)
Bengali: এলার্জি ‎(elarji)
Bulgarian: алергия (bg) f ‎(alergija)
Burmese: မတဲ့ဘူး ‎(ma.tai.bhu:)
Catalan: al·lèrgia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 過敏 (zh), 过敏 (zh) ‎(guòmǐn)
Czech: alergie (cs) f
Danish: allergi (da) c
Dutch: allergie (nl) f
Esperanto: alergio
Estonian: allergia
Finnish: allergia (fi)
French: allergie (fr) f
Galician: alerxia (gl) f
Georgian: ალერგია ‎(alergia)
Greek: αλλεργία (el) f ‎(allergía)
Hebrew: אַלֶרגִיָה (he) f ‎(alergiya)
Hindi: एलर्जी f ‎(elarjī)
Hungarian: allergia (hu)
Icelandic: ofnæmi (is) n
Ido: alergio (io)
Indonesian: alergi (id)
Irish: ailléirge f
Japanese: アレルギー (ja) ‎(arerugī)
Kazakh: аллергия ‎(allergïya)
Khmer:
Korean: 알레르기 (ko) ‎(allereugi)
Kyrgyz: аллергия ‎(allergiya)

Lao:
Latvian: alerģija f
Lithuanian: alergija f
Macedonian: алергија f ‎(alergija)
Malay: alahan, alergi
Manx: allerjee
Maori: mate pāwera
Mongolian: харшил (mn) ‎(haršil)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: allergi (no) m

Nynorsk: allergi m
Persian: آلرژی (fa) ‎(âlerži), حساسیت (fa) ‎(hassâsiyat)
Polish: uczulenie (pl) n, alergia (pl) f
Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
Romanian: alergie (ro) f
Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f ‎(allergíja)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: алергија f

Roman: alergija f
Slovak: alergia (sk) f
Slovene: alergija (sl) f
Spanish: alergia (es) f
Swedish: allergi (sv) c
Tagalog: taluramdam, taluhiyang
Tajik: аллергиа ‎(allergia)
Tamil: ஒவ்வாமை (ta) ‎(ovvāmai)
Thai: ภูมิแพ้ (th) ‎(poom páe)
Turkish: alerji (tr)
Turkmen: allergiýa
Ukrainian: алергі́я (uk) f ‎(alerhíja)
Urdu: الرجی f ‎(elarjī)
Uzbek: allergiya (uz)
Vietnamese: dị ứng
Yiddish: אַלערגיע ‎(alergye)

hypersensitivity

Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة f ‎(ʾarajiyya), حَسَّاسِيَّة f ‎(ḥassāsiyya)
Armenian: ալերգիա ‎(alergia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 過敏 (zh), 过敏 (zh) ‎(guòmǐn)
Dutch: allergie (nl) f
Finnish: allergia (fi)
French: allergie (fr) f
Galician: alerxia (gl) f
German: Allergie (de) f

Ido: alergio (io)
Irish: ailléirge f
Japanese: アレルギー (ja) ‎(arerugī)
Korean: 알레르기 (ko) ‎(allereugi)
Persian: آلرژی (fa) ‎(âlerži), حساسیت (fa) ‎(hassâsiyat)
Portuguese: alergia (pt) f
Romanian: alergie (ro) f
Russian: аллерги́я (ru) f ‎(allergíja)
Spanish: alergia (es) f

altered susceptibility

Armenian: ալերգիա ‎(alergia)
Finnish: allergia (fi)
Japanese: アレルギー (ja) ‎(arerugī)
Korean: 알레르기 (ko) ‎(allereugi)
Macedonian: але́ргија f ‎(alérgija)

Russian: аллерги́я (ru) ‎(allergíja)
Serbo-Croatian: alèrgija f
Swedish: allergi (sv) c

antipathy

Armenian: ալերգիա ‎(alergia)
Catalan: al·lèrgia f
Czech: alergie (cs) f
Dutch: allergie (nl) f
Finnish: allergia (fi)
French: allergie (fr) f

Hungarian: allergia (hu)
Macedonian: але́ргија f ‎(alérgija)
Polish: alergia (pl) f
Portuguese: alergia (pt) f, ojeriza (pt) f, antipatia (pt) f
Russian: аллерги́я (ru) ‎(allergíja)
Serbo-Croatian: alèrgija f
Swedish: allergi (sv) c

See also

allergy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hypersensitivity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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