atopy
pronunciation
How to pronounce atopy in British English:
UK ['ætəpɪ]
How to pronounce atopy in American English:
US ['ætəpɪ]
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- Noun:
- an allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact
Word Origin
- atopy (n.)
- 1923, coined by Edward D. Perry, professor of Greek at Columbia University, at the request of medical men, from Greek atopia "unusualness, strangeness, a being out of the way," from atopos "out of place, strange, odd, eccentric," from a-, privative prefix (see a- (3)), + topos "place" (see topos).
Example
- 1. If you are predisposed to an allergy , the condition is called atopy .
- 2. Ear infections are also related to skin allergies , especially food hypersensitivity dermatitis and canine atopy .
- 3. Features of severe asthma in school-age children : atopy and increased exhaled nitric oxide .
- 4. Influence of atopy and asthma on exhaled nitric oxide in an unselected birth cohort study .
- 5. Atopy was defined as a positive skin-prick test to mites , cat , alternaria , cladosporium , grass , birch , parietaria , olive , or ragweed .