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An allergen is a substance that can start an allergy in some people. For everyone else the same thing may be harmless. House dust, grass , peanuts, shrimp, cat hair — any of these can be an allergen if a person’s body treats it as an enemy. You see the word on food packets (“allergen information”), in clinics, and in the news. It is a precise, slightly technical word, not slang. Though actually, the allergen is not the sickness. The allergy is the body’s reaction; the allergen is only the trigger that sets it off.
過敏原
組成A shortened compound of allergy + -gen. Here -gen means “something that produces.” The word was built to look like medical words such as pathogen and antigen.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
allergennoun/ˈælə(ɹ)ˌd͡ʒɛn/
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medicinesciencesA substance which causes an allergic reaction.
- Pollen, dust, and spores are common allergens.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。