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Definition: Allergen |
AllergenNoun1. Any substance that can cause an allergy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | A substance that causes an allergic reaction in individuals sensitive to it. (references) |
| Substance or material which may cause an altered capacity in the human organism to react to a foreign substance. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A antigenic substance capable of producing immediate-type hypersensitivity (allergy). (references) |
Medicine | A substance capable of inducing allergy or hypersensitivity. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An allergen is any substance that causes an allergic reaction, most often when eaten or inhaled.
No comprehensive list of allergens is possible, because sensitivities vary from one person to another and it is possible to be allergic to literally anything.
Dust, pollen and pet dander or pet hair are all common allergens, but it is possible to be allergic to anything from chlorine to perfume. Food allergies are not as common as food sensitivity, but some foods such as peanuts (really a legume), nutss, seafood and shellfish are the cause of serious allergies in many people. A few people have even been recorded to be allergic to certain chemicals found in almost all water. Poison ivy (and other plants, like poison sumac or poison oak) is a plant that will cause an allergic reaction for anyone, given enough repeated contact -- like any allergy, the human body must learn to fight the allergen, some bodies learn slower and will appear to be "immune" to poison ivy.
An allergic reaction can be caused by any form of direct contact with the allergen - eating or drinking a food you are sensitive to (ingestion), breathing in pollen, perfume or pet dander (inhalation), or brushing your body against an allergy-causing plant (direct contact, generally resulting in hives). Other common causes of serious allergy are bee stings, penicillin, and latex. An extremely serious form of an allergic reaction, which can kill in mere minutes, is called anaphylaxis.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allergen."
Crosswords: Allergen |
| English words defined with "allergen": allergenic, allergic reaction, allergy ♦ contact dermatitis ♦ erythema multiforme ♦ hypersensitivity reaction ♦ intradermal test ♦ patch test ♦ ragweed pollen ♦ subcutaneous test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "allergen": Basophil Degranulation Test ♦ immediate-type hypersensitivity, immediate-type hypersensivity reaction ♦ Radioallergosorbent Test ♦ Skin Test End-Point Titration ♦ Toluene 2,4-Diisocyanate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Allergen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (allergen), German (allergen), Swedish (allergen). |
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Health | Currently, no allergen extracts are approved by FDA for this approach. (references) | |
The technician then asks the patient if the food allergen has aggravated the arthritis symptoms. (references) | ||
Doctors use skin tests to determine whether a patient has IgE antibodies in the skin that react to a specific allergen. (references) | ||
Political Economy | JAPAN | The U.S. government agrees that labeling is necessary when there are health or safety reasons, such as a presence of an allergen, or changes in food characteristics, such as altered nutritional content. (references) |
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| "Allergen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allergen" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "allergen": allergen-sensitized, allergen-specific. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "allergen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 变态反"原. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | allergen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | allergeen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | allergiaa aiheuttava aine, allergeeni, herkistävä aine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | allergène. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Allergen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αλλεργιογόνο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allergene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegretto, allegro, allergy, alloc, allocate, allocation, aloe, aloha, aloha shirt, anchor, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アレルゲン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allergenay alergogénio, alergénio, alérgeno, alérgeno. (various references) аллерген. (various references) alergeno, sustancia alergénica. (various references) allergen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "allergen": allergenic, allergenicities, allergenicity, allergens. (additional references) | |
Words containing "allergen": antiallergenic, antiallergenics, hypoallergenic, nonallergenic. (additional references) | |
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"Allergen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alberigo, alegret, alergan, Allegre, allegrini, Allerce, allerg, Allergan, allerge, allerged, allerley, alluren, arledge, Calliergon, Ejlersen, llerena. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "allergen" (pronounced a"lerjun) |
| 3 | -j u n | antigen, bludgeon, burgeon, carcinogen, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, estrogen, glycogen, gudgeon, halogen, hydrogen, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen, pigeon, plasminogen, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: alleger, enlarge, general, gleaner, langrel. | |
-2 letters: allege, angler, enrage, galere, genera, leaner, regale, regnal. | |
-3 letters: agene, aglee, agree, allee, anele, angel, anger, angle, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, genre, glare, glean, gnarl, green, lager, laree, large, learn, legal, leger, ragee, ranee, range, regal, regna, renal. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, alee, earl, earn, egal, eger, elan, erne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: allergens, generally, organelle. | |
+2 letters: allergenic, challenger, organelles, relabeling. | |
+3 letters: challengers, enlargeable, farewelling, generically, legendarily, rechallenge, relabelling, repanelling, revealingly. | |
+4 letters: intertillage, intervillage, rechallenged, rechallenges. | |
+5 letters: allergenicity, candlelighter, energetically, everlastingly, generalizable, intertillages, nonallergenic, overpedalling, precancelling, rechallenging, rechannelling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 65 72 67 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. . .-. --. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 01100111 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l e r g e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0065 0072 0067 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578787184737180 |
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