Hypersensitive state

Japanese: 過敏状態 - かびんじょうたい
Hypersensitive state

...In many cases, the disease occurs due to an underlying abnormality in the recipient's constitution. At the end of the 19th century, E. von Behring observed that when animals were repeatedly injected with bacterial toxins, sometimes a very small amount of the toxin, less than the lethal dose, caused severe shock symptoms. He thought that this was because the animals had become hypersensitive to the toxin, and named this state hypersensitivity (Überempfindlichkeit in German). ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "hypersensitive state" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…被投与者の体質上の異常が根底にあって発生する場合が多い。19世紀末にE.vonベーリングが,動物に細菌の毒素をくりかえし注射していくと,ときに致死量以下のごく少量の毒素の注射で激しいショック症状をおこすことを観察し,それは動物がその毒素に対して過敏になっているためと考え,その状態をhypersensitivity(過敏状態。ドイツ語ではÜberempfindlichkeit)と名づけた。…

※「過敏状態」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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