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I've reverted your edits to Anaphylaxis, term always (as far as I am aware) used to imply a systemic allergic reaction (vs localised rashes or urticaria). See Talk:Anaphylaxis for more discussion on this. David Ruben Talk 04:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Please engage in talk page discussion rather than changing against consensus. Your edit wiped through the citation markup for the initial 7 references. Please look at Talk:Anaphylaxis#Localized Anaphylaxis ? for points raised, and see the policy of WP:NPOV - minority viewpoints do need to be mentioned but not to an WP:UNDUE extent, and trivial minority viewpoints should not be included at all.
The provided links of National Library of Medicine - Medical Subject Headings MESH database http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?field=uid&term=D000707 defines as "The reaction may include rapidly progressing urticaria, respiratory distress, vascular collapse, systemic SHOCK, and death" and at bottom of the page will be seen the MeSH Tree Structures which shows that the local reaction of urticaria has a separate entry
The WHO ICD-10 coding link, http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/?gt66.htm+t782 , has "anaphlactic shock" as separate from just "Angioneurotic oedema" and "Allergy, unspecified"
The eMedicine article link, http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic128.htm , gives a fairly typical and accepted discussion of the topic and in 1st section gives a definition of "Anaphylaxis is an acute systemic reaction caused by..." David Ruben Talk 01:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)