deallergize

present singular third person deallergizes · participle present deallergizing · participle past deallergized · past deallergized · alternative de-allergize

1. rareTo reduce a person or animal's allergic reaction to some substance; to desensitize.

   The animals could, therefore, be considered deallergized.

   1953, The journal of immunology, volume 71, page 399

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   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.

   1948, Annals of internal medicine, volume 28, page 186

   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.

   2015, Erich Urbach, Skin Diseases Nutrition and Metabolism, page 424