deallergize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reduce a person or animal's allergic reaction to some substance; to desensitize.
Example Sentences
- "He demonstrated by perfusion experiments that the organs of an animal thus exposed to long lasting shock may become deallergized for the duration of its life with the inhibition of the antigen-antibody reaction."
- "The animals could, therefore, be considered deallergized."
- "When there is a known allergenic food factor every effort should be made either to eliminate exposure to it, or, preferably, to deallergize the patient by means of a Propeptan diet."
Etymology
From de- + allergize.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de