hypersensitivity

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Hypersensitivity is a medical term describing symptoms that are now known to be caused by unrelated mechanisms of immunity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Figure 21.28 Immune Hypersensitivity Components of the immune system cause four types of hypersensitivity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Hypersensitivity is his default: every flicker, every pause becomes potentially profound.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2010