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US
/ˌhaɪpɝˈsɛnsɪˌtɪvɪˌti/
]
[ UK /hˌaɪpəsənsɪtˈɪvɪti/ ]
[ UK /hˌaɪpəsənsɪtˈɪvɪti/ ]
NOUN
- extreme sensitivity
- pathological sensitivity
How To Use hypersensitivity In A Sentence
- T cells identify antigens, and the antigen-sensitised T cells produce cytokines and other soluble factors which mediate the hypersensitivity reaction, or else they develop cytotoxicity. The Different Types of Dairy Allergy
- Hypersensitivity reactions have also occurred with lamotrigine therapy; some reactions have been fatal or life-threatening.
- In that case, hypersensitivity to human seminal plasma was diagnosed.
- Richet calls this hypersensitivity with regard to toxins, anaphylaxis, in contrast to phylaxis or prophylaxis, meaning protection. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1913 - Presentation Speech
- One form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis is known as farmer's lung because the farmer inhales thermophilic actinomycetes in moldy hay that set off the reaction.
- Gong Ning Oral Liquid could also enhance NK cell activity, increase the delayed type hypersensitivity reaction under immunosuppressive state and promote production of inhibition of serum hemolysin.
- Harms of antiviral treatment may include drug hypersensitivity and renal impairment.
- Farmer's lung disease is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by the inhalation of thermophilic actinomycetes that grow in moldy hay or straw.
- Hypersensitivity responses play a major role in plant resistance to pathogens.
- Despite her hypersensitivity to his sentimental confessions, Esther is moved by his insistence that she "obey the law that is the meaning and the content of her life."