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Abstract
A medical specialty concerned with the hypersensitivity of the individual to foreign substances and protection from the resultant infection or disorder.
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6 entry terms
- Allergy, Immunology
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology, Allergy
- Allergy Specialty
- Immunology
- Specialty, Allergy
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11 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use IMMUNE SYSTEM PHENOMENA or specifics treed under it for immunologic processes and properties; use HYPERSENSITIVITY or specifics treed under it for allergic conditions; the qualifier / immunol is available for use with specific anatomical terms, organisms, diseases, etc
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History Note
80; IMMUNOLOGY was heading 1963-79; RADIATION IMMUNOLOGY was heading 1964-66
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Allergy and Immunology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000486. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000486
- Allergy and Immunology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunology
- Allergy and Immunology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101929