Definition of dander
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:dandruff;
specifically
:minute scales from hair, feathers, or skin that may be allergenic
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But Unsocial Media’s dander gets up when players get all this money.
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Some people are extremely sensitive to animal dander, which is what likely caused your guests to leave.
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When Tregs don’t function properly, people may develop allergies to harmless substances like peanut protein or cat dander, or suffer from autoimmune disorders in which the immune system turns on the body’s own tissues.
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Heck, before the first game of the Silver Boot series featuring the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros tempers were flaring, collars were hot, and players were getting their dander up.
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According to a recent study by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, in Washington, dust isn’t made up of just lint, pollen, skin cells and animal dander.
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Keep them well-groomed to reduce the impact their hair and dander has on the interior of the home.
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But others are designed to trap pet dander, dust mites, allergens, mold and bacteria.
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Dander and urine and hair and fuzz and tissue and spilled beer and spilled sauce and fake blood accumulated on surfaces everywhere.
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How did "dander" acquire its "temper" sense? Etymologists have come up with a few possibilities, but nothing is known for sure. Some experts have proposed, tongue-in-cheek, that the meaning stems from the image of an angry person tearing out his or her hair by the fistful, scattering dandruff in the process. Some think it may come from a West Indian word dander, which refers to a kind of ferment and suggests "rising" anger (in English, "ferment" can mean either "an agent capable of causing fermentation" or "a state of unrest or excitement"). Yet another proposed possibility is that the anger sense was imported to America by early Dutch colonists and is from their phrase op donderen, meaning "to burst into a sudden rage."
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:tiny scales from hair, feathers, or skin that may cause allergic reactions
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:2anger
- The insults got my dander up.
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medical Definition of dander
:dandruff;
specifically
:minute scales from hair, feathers, or skin that may act as allergens
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