Überempfindlichkeit — meaning in English
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English meaning
- allergy noun A condition in which the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, causing symptoms such as sneezing, rashes, or swelling.
Senses
Überempfindlichkeit is used for these senses in English:
- allergy (medicine, immunology, broadly) 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; any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
- hypersensitivity Any heightened immune response to an antigen; an allergy; hypersensation.
allergy — full definition
- noun A condition in which the immune system overreacts to a normally harmless substance, causing symptoms such as sneezing, rashes, or swelling.
- noun A strong dislike or aversion, used figuratively.