allergy

Etymology
Borrowed from. Coined by Austrian pediatrician Clemens von Pirquet in 1906 from +, on the model of.

Noun

 * 1)   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.
 * 2)   Specifically, hypersensitivity of class I in the modern classification thereof: the immunoglobulin E–mediated type.
 * 3)  An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

Usage notes
From its coining in 1906 until the 1960s, the word allergy always covered any kind of (what humans now call) hypersensitivity reactions. Since then, the word also has a stricter sense referring specifically to only a subset of them, mediated by a certain antibody. Both senses remain in wide use.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة, حَسَّاسِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: alerxa
 * Azerbaijani: allergiya
 * South Azerbaijani: حساسیة
 * Belarusian: алергі́я
 * Bengali: এলার্জি
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: မတဲ့ဘူး
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: alergedh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: alergio
 * Estonian: allergia
 * Faroese: ovurviðkvæmi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ალერგია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: एलर्जी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ailléirge
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: аллергия
 * Khmer: អាឡែរហ្សី, អាឡែស៊ី
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: alerģija
 * Lithuanian: alergija
 * Macedonian: алергија
 * Malay: ,
 * Manx: allerjee
 * Maori: mate pāwera, mate tūtohu
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: hojoołáhígíí
 * Northern Sami: allergiija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: allergi
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алѐргија
 * Roman: alèrgija
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: taluramdam, taluhiyang
 * Tajik: аллергиа
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཆམས་ཚི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: allergiýa
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: الرجی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: dị ứng
 * Yiddish: אַלערגיע
 * Zazaki:


 * Arabic: أَرَجِيَّة, حَسَّاسِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: alergedh
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ailléirge
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maori: mate pāwera
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Cornish: alergedh
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: але́ргија
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алѐргија
 * Roman: alèrgija
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: alergedh
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: але́ргија
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алѐргија
 * Roman: alèrgija
 * Swedish:


 * Esperanto:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Swedish: ,