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Noun autoimmune disease has 1 sense
- autoimmune disease, autoimmune disorder - 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
--1 is a kind of disease
--1 has parts: autoimmunity
--1 has particulars: | | 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 |
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