English noun: autoimmune disease |
| 1. | autoimmune disease (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 |
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| Synonyms | autoimmune disorder |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disease |
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| 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 |
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| Part holonym | autoimmunity |
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