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Word: Allergy
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 20th century: from German Allergie, from Greek allos ‘other’, on the pattern of Energie ‘energy’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈalədʒi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive.
Short Definition:damaging immune response by body to particular substance
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