Crossword clues for hypersensitivity
hypersensitivity
Wiktionary
n. any heightened immune response to an antigen; an allergy
WordNet
n. pathological sensitivity
extreme sensitivity
Wikipedia
Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction or intolerance) is a set of undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system, including allergies and autoimmunity. They are usually referred to as an over- reaction of the immune system and these reactions may be damaging, uncomfortable, or occasionally fatal. Hypersensitivity reactions require a pre-sensitized (immune) state of the host. They are classified in four groups after the proposal of P. G. H. Gell and Robin Coombs in 1963.
Hypersensitivity (also called hypersensitivity reaction or intolerance) is a set of undesirable reactions produced by the normal immune system, including allergies and autoimmunity.
Hypersensitivity or hypersensitive may also refer to:
- Dentin hypersensitivity, a cause of dental pain
- Hyperesthesia, abnormal increase in sensitivity to stimuli of the sense
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
- Hypersensitive, a music album
- Hypersensitive response, infection defense in plants
- Hypersensitive site, a region in chromatin
Usage examples of "hypersensitivity".
I had learned, in Arilinn, what it was to be a telepath, Comyn of our caste, gifted or cursed with the linking of minds and the hypersensitivity to the other minds around me.
While they had dinner he told Cathryn that there still was no sign of a delayed, cell-mediated hypersensitivity.