alerdyi
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English allergy, 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.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧ler‧dyi
Noun edit
alerdyi
- (pathology, 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
- (pathology) any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance
- altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one
- an antipathy, as toward a person or activity