過敏症

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 過敏症 combines 過敏, hypersensitive, with 症, condition or symptoms, and is read かびんしょう.
• Basic usage: It denotes hypersensitivity to a particular substance or drug, as in 金属に対する過敏症 and 薬への過敏症.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• に対する and への
  • The trigger can be linked explicitly in 金属に対する過敏症 or more compactly in 薬への過敏症.
• Difference from general sensitivity
  • 過敏 describes being overly sensitive, while 過敏症 denotes a condition or symptoms discussed in contexts such as medical consultation and testing.