AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER
Definition:
- [noun] any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues
Synonyms: autoimmune disease
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Related Words:
- type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes
- rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism
- ankylosing spondylitis, Marie-Strumpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis
- discoid lupus erythematosus, DLE
- Hashimoto's disease
- lupus erythematosus, LE
- scleroderma, dermatosclerosis
- thrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease
