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English noun: autoimmune disorder

1. autoimmune disorder (state) 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


Synonymsautoimmune disease


Broader (hypernym)disease


Narrower (hyponym)ankylosing spondylitis, atrophic arthritis, autoimmune diabetes, dermatosclerosis, discoid lupus erythematosus, disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, DLE, exophthalmic goiter, Graves' disease, growth-onset diabetes, Hashimoto's disease, IDDM, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile diabetes, juvenile-onset diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, LE, lupus erythematosus, Marie-Strumpell disease, MS, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia, myasthenia gravis, pemphigus, purpura hemorrhagica, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid spondylitis, scleroderma, thrombocytopenic purpura, type I diabetes, Werlhof's disease


Part holonymautoimmunity









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