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Definition of Pollinosis
1. Noun. A seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen.
Definition of Pollinosis
1. Noun. An allergy to grass and other pollen which causes cold symptoms in sufferers; hay fever. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pollinosis
1. [n -NOSES]
Medical Definition of Pollinosis
1. Hay fever excited by the pollen of various plants. Synonym: pollenosis. Origin: L. Pollen, pollen, + G. -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollinosis
Literary usage of Pollinosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Epidemiology and public health: a text and reference book for physicians by Victor Clarence Vaughan (1922)
"Under the term "pollinosis" we include certain conjunc- tival, nasopharyngeal,
and tracheobronchial congestive and catarrhal conditions which are due to the ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"The interstitial changes in the skin are identical with the intranasal changes
in pollinosis and the intrabronchial changes in asthma, and serve as a means ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"We supply: TIMOTHY POLLEN EXTRACT for prophylaxis and treatment of spring
pollinosis; RAGWEED POLLEN EXTRACT for prophylaxis and treatment of autumnal ..."
4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"... AS EVIDENCED IN HAY-FEVER This morning I wish to call your attention particularly
to the question of hay-fever, or pollinosis, as it is now frequently ..."
5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"pollinosis ("Hay-Fever"). Jour. Botany 58: 40-44. 1920.— A condensed account is
given of the symptoms of hay fever. It is noted that the problem of ..."
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