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attributive and in the genitive. Designating a band of cutaneous hypersensitivity in the distribution of a spinal nerve segment, occurring in…
spec. in Medicine: characterized by the fact that a marked adverse bodily response may be evoked by some specific substance or agent which (in…
= hypersensitive, adj. 2.
(a) out of place (Webster 1909); (b) Medicine pertaining, relating to, or characterized by atopy.