ALLERGENIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allergenic mean? 

• ALLERGENIC (adjective)
  The adjective ALLERGENIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or having the effect of an allergen

  Familiarity information: ALLERGENIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLERGENIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or having the effect of an allergen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

allergen (any substance that can cause an allergy)

Derivation:

allergen (any substance that can cause an allergy)

 Context examples 

A unit used for standardization of an allergenic product based on evaluation of product potency against reference standard in combined in vivo (skin test) and in vitro (IgE-based ELISA) testing.

(Bioequivalent Allergy Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance made from living organisms or things they produce, for example: virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product, or analogous product.

(Biological agent, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Candida albicans allergenic extract may be used as a recall antigen to stimulate the immune system against HPV.

(HPV-16 E6 Peptides Vaccine/Candida albicans Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

The Bichon Frise has a loosely curled double coat consisting of a textured outer coat lined with a soft, fine, silky undercoat that is virtually hypo-allergenic.

(Bichon Frise, NCI Thesaurus)

Unit of measure of potency of allergenic product expressed as a number of allergy units per one milliliter of formulation.

(Allergy Unit per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

At week eight, all participants began daily OIT, an investigational treatment that involves eating small, gradually increasing doses of an allergenic food.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

It may be that grass pollens become more allergenic when combined with air pollutants so that the benefits of greenspace diminish as pollution increases.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A biological potency unit assigned to several standardized allergenic extracts, following in-vitro comparison of the test extract to an FDA CBER reference standard.

(Allergy Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical guidelines previously recommended that infants at high risk for allergy avoid allergenic foods, such as peanuts.

(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)