How to pronounce “allergy”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (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.
• (informal, figuratively) An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.

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