allergy
[ˈæl.ə.dʒi][ˈæl.ɚ.d͡ʒi]
- n.
- 变应性，反感，厌恶
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
allergy
词源说明
Borrowed from German Allergie. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, activity”), on the model of Energie.
释义
名词noun
- 1(medicine, immunology, loosely) 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.
- 2informal, figurativelyAn antipathy, as toward a person or activity.