allergology
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S: http://www.cdt-babes.ro/servicii/allergology-clinical-immunology.php (last access: 26 September 2015); http://www.medicine.uct.ac.za/allergology-and-clinical-immunology (last access: 26 September 2015).

N: 1. From “allergy” (German Allergie, from all- + Greek ergon work; first Known Use: 1910) and “-logy” (word-forming element meaning “a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science,” from Greek -logia -often via French -logie or Medieval Latin -logia-, from root of legein “to speak;” thus, “the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of -a certain subject-)”.
2. The branch of medicine devoted to the study of allergy, its etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=-logy (last access: 26 September 2015). MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/allergology (last access: 26 September 2015); 2. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 26 September 2015).

GV: allergiology

S: GDT (last access: 26 September 2015)

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CR: allergy, immune system.