anaphylactic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Jacob has potentially fatal anaphylactic reactions to dairy, so must carry an EpiPen with him and take multiple antihistamines.
From BBC
The campaign is named in memory of five-year-old Benedict Blythe, who died from an anaphylactic reaction at school in December 2021.
From BBC
At the time, University of Sydney's Prof Greg Neely envisaged it had the potential to be used like an EpiPen, a device carried by people with allergies at risk of death from anaphylactic shock.
From BBC
When my parents gave me that yellow M&M display in 2020, my throat tightened and my eyes welled up—not because I was going into anaphylactic shock but because I knew I was loved.
“I was willing to risk anaphylactic shock for $7,000,” he once wrote there.
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