autoimmune disease
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- noun
- /ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjun dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad autoinmune
- Some of the autoimmune diseases can lead to muscle aches and muscle cramps down in the legs.
- autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid
- autoimmune diseases such as lupus
- autoimmune diseases such as arthritis
His autoimmune disease is in remission.
- His autoimmune disease is in remission.
- And they're beginning to wonder if the parallel between cancer and autoimmune diseases is with microplastics.
- And interestingly enough, women by far have far more autoimmune diseases than men.
- This is rheumatoid, which is an autoimmune disease.
- So there is some suggestion that worms are providing protection against autoimmune disease.
- So if you're suffering from chronic inflammation or an autoimmune disease, you're going to benefit from a carnivore diet as well.
- So rheumatoid arthritis or RA as we call it, is an autoimmune disease.
- Cancer, autoimmune diseases, health issues, depression, all of that.
- I, I, I've been healed from ulcer of colitis or autoimmune disease or numerous conditions.
- They have lower rates of mental illness, of autism, of obesity, of autoimmune diseases.
- And I know this is a mouthful, but a lot of women's cancers and autoimmune disease are precisely because it's a self depression.
Examples
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And I've yet to have a patient with autoimmune disease who doesn't have leaky gut.
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Toni Braxton has lupus, an autoimmune disease that she says effects her every single day.
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So very much impacted my health, like when I got diagnosed with autoimmune disease after the birth of my son.
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His autoimmune disease is in remission.
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Viral infections have been proposed, though not proven, as one of the causes of many autoimmune diseases.
Academic text (1991) -
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease involving multiple immune pathways and cell types.
Academic text (2007) -
Major diseases caused by abnormal immune response include autoimmune disease and graft versus host disease (GvHD).
Academic text (2018) -
Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal muscles of the body.
Academic text (2007) -
There are many such systemic autoimmune diseases, lupus, multiple sclerosis, IBD, Crohn's.
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Chris Plate, 22, has had an autoimmune disease since he was four.
Synonyms
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A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's healthy parts
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase directly combines 'autoimmune' (immune system attacking the body's own tissues) with 'disease' (a medical condition), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it means a disease caused by the immune system attacking the body. The structure is regular modifier + noun and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, making the meaning compositional and immediately accessible.
Etymology
Autoimmune disease comes from its parts: auto means 'self' and immune is the body's protection system. It describes when that protection mistakes the body's own cells for invaders and attacks 'itself', so the name shows the immune system attacking the body's own tissues.