Look up: hypersensitivity

1. hypersensitivity
   The expression of extreme reactivity by a plant in response to a potential parasite or pathogen, the plant's response commonly serving to limit or prevent parasitization/disease.
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2. Hypersensitivity
   Excessive sensitivity of plant tissues to certain pathogens. Affected cells are killed quickly, blocking the advance of obligate parasites. Also an immune reaction, usually harmful to the animal, caused either by antigen-antibody reactions or cellular-immune processes.
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3. hypersensitivity
   [n] - pathological sensitivity 2. [n] - extreme sensitivity
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4. Hypersensitivity
   a sharp, sudden painful reaction in teeth when exposed to hot, cold, chemical, mechanical or osmotic (sweet or salt) stimuli.
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5. Hypersensitivity
   The condition of being excessively sensitive (overreacting) to the effects of an action or a substance, e.g., the immune system can become hypersensitive to foreign particles such as dust or pollen, which can lead to an allergic reaction. The nervous system may also become hypersensitive to stimulation.
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6. Hypersensitivity
   Excessive sensitivity to certain external factors (over-reaction by immune system causing allergic symptoms).
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7. hypersensitivity
   State in which an individual reacts with allergic effects following exposure to a certain substance (
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8. Hypersensitivity
   See allergy.
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9. Hypersensitivity
   Abnormal immunological reaction produced in certain individuals when re-exposed to antigens that are innocuous to other individuals. More common in people with autism.
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10. Hypersensitivity
    an excessive response of the body's immune system to a foreign protein
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11. Hypersensitivity
    The abnormal immunological reaction produced in certain individuals when re-exposed to antigens that are innocuous to other individuals.
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12. hypersensitivity
    In immunology, a state of excessive and potentially damaging immune responsiveness as a result of previous exposure to antigen. If the hypersensitivity is of the immediate type (antibody-mediated), then the response occurs in minutes; in delayed hypersensitivity the response takes much longer (about 24h) and is mediated by primed T-cells. Hypersensitivity responses are not simply divisible into the two types, and it is now more common to subdivide immediate responses into types I, II, and III, the delayed response being of type IV. Type I responses involve antigen reacting with IgE fixed to cells (usually mast cells) and are characterized by histamine release; anaphylactic responses and urticaria are of this type. In type II responses circulating antibody reacts with cell surface or cell-bound antigen, and if complement fixation occurs, cytolysis may follow. In type III reactions immune complexes are formed in solution and lead to damage (serum sickness, glomerulonephritis, Arthus reaction). Delayed-type responses of Type IV involve primed lymphocytes reacting with antigen and lead to formation of a lymphocyte-macrophage granuloma without involvement of circulating antibody.
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13. hypersensitivity
    <immunology> A state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a foreign substance. Hypersensitivity reactions are classified as immediate or delayed, types I and IV, respectively, in the Gell and Coombs classification of immune responses. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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14. hypersensitivity
    noun extreme sensitivity
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15. hypersensitivity
    (hi″pәr-sen″sĭ-tiv´ĭ-te) a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a foreign agent; anaphylaxis and allergy are two types. The hypersensitivity states and resulting hypersensitivity reactions are usually subclassified by the Gell and Coombs classi...
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16. hypersensitivity
    acquired bodily state in which the reaction to a stimulus (e.g., a substance causing allergy or a physical agent such as light) is unusually prompt ...
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17. hypersensitivity
    a state of altered reactivity in which the body reacts with an exaggerated immune response to a foreign substance. Hypersensitivity reactions are classified as immediate or delayed, types I and IV, respectively, in the Gell and Coombs classification (q.v.) of immune responses.
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18. hypersensitivity
    hypersensitivity Abnormally acute sensitivity.
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19. Hypersensitivity
    State of reactivity to antigen that is greater than normal for the antigenic challenge; hypersensitivity is the same as allergy and denotes a deleterious outcome rather than a protective one.
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20. hypersensitivity
    
    • pathological sensitivity
    • extreme sensitivity
    
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21. hypersensitivity
    hypersensitivity, heightened response in a body tissue to an antigen or foreign substance. The body normally responds to an antigen by producing specific antibodies against it. The antibodies impart immunity for any later exposure to that antigen. When exposure takes place under certain physiologica...
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22. hypersensitivity
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hī′pĕr-sen′si-tiv′i-tē Definitions: 1. Abnormal sensitivity, a condition in which there is an exaggerated response by the body to the stimulus of a foreign agent. 2. In endocrinology, an excessive target tissue response to a hormone. Synonyms: hormone hypersensitivity See: allergy
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23. hypersensitivity
    (hi;per-sen;su1-tiv;u1-te) Another name for allergy; abnormal immune response that may be immediate (due to antibodies of the IgE class) or delayed (due to cell-mediated immunity).
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24. hypersensitivity
    (hi;per-sen;su1-tiv;u1-te) Another name for allergy; abnormal immune response that may be immediate (due to antibodies of the IgE class) or delayed (due to cell-mediated immunity).
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25. hypersensitivity
    An exaggerated response by the immune system to a drug or other substance.
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