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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.
  • informal An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
  • pathology Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
  • 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.

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