autoimmune disorder
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- noun
- /ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjun dɪsˈɔːrdər/
- Specialized
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trastorno autoinmune
- After years of treatment, she learned to manage her autoimmune disorder effectively.
So you said, Oh well, what if somebody has an autoimmune disorder?
- So you said, Oh well, what if somebody has an autoimmune disorder?
- And if you have an autoimmune disorder, again, it's why are my cells pissed off at me?
- And it can cause autoimmune disorders, can cause pain and cause arthritis.
- I think just because of the situations I've been thrown into, like I mean, the autoimmune disorder, SSRI withdrawal, my dad being sick, my mom being sick.
Examples
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A rare life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
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Terrence Power of Breckenridge, Colo., said that after his wife, Diane, learned she had Wegener's disease, an uncommon autoimmune disorder, the couple found it difficult to refuse testing recommended by a trusted doctor.
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We think it's an autoimmune disorder.
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You keep talking about the potential for autoimmune disorders somewhere down the road.
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I have terrible complex autoimmune disorders, and I see 11 different specialists.
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-You know, when I was 29, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder.
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He has an autoimmune disorder.
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Hashimoto's is the most common autoimmune disorder in the U.S., affecting between 7% and 8% of the population.
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Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is actually an autoimmune disorder.
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Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that primarily targets the lacrimal and salivary glands.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'autoimmune' specifies the immune system attacking the body's own tissues and 'disorder' denotes a medical condition, so the combined meaning is a medical condition caused by the immune system. This is a standard, internationally used medical compound following predictable English formation patterns, so a learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The term autoimmune disorder comes from the parts auto, meaning 'self', and immune, the body's defence system. So it creates a picture of the body's defence attacking 'itself', which is why the phrase means a disease where the immune system attacks healthy parts of the body by mistake.