systemic lupus erythematosus
- noun
- /sɪˈstɛmɪk ˈluːpəs ˌɛrɪθəˈmætəsəs/
- Specialized
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lupus eritematoso sistémico
- In young patients, it is commonly hereditary, but after the second decade, its onset is often linked with underlying causes, particularly scleroderma and systemic lupus erythematosus.
- systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Examples
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MM is a 34-year-old female who has a 2-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma.
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This signaling pathway appears to have a role in various autoimmune conditions, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and AIH (Furukawa et al. 2010).
Academic text (2012) -
The doctor diagnosed her with systemic lupus erythematosus, a condition that causes joint pain and fatigue.
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In cases of systemic lupus erythematosus, patients often report experiencing a painful skin rash.
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Research shows that systemic lupus erythematosus can affect multiple organs if not treated properly.
Synonyms
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A long-lasting disease where the body's defense system attacks its own parts, often causing skin rashes and joint pain
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A long-term illness where the immune system attacks the body, causing tiredness, joint pain, and skin rashes
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A long-lasting disease that makes the body attack its own skin and joints
A disease in which the immune system attacks many body parts, causing tiredness, joint pain, and a face rash
A long-term illness in which the body's defence attacks the skin, joints, and other parts
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
systemic + lupus + erythematosus
The term is transparently compositional: 'systemic' = affecting the whole system, 'lupus' = a chronic disease, and 'erythematosus' = inflammatory/red skin, so together they denote a widespread inflammatory form of lupus. Though medical and Latin-derived, the meaning follows directly from the constituent parts and similar constructions occur across languages, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the overall sense.
Etymology
Systemic lupus erythematosus comes from three parts: systemic means 'through the whole body', lupus comes from an old Latin word for 'wolf' because early doctors thought the face rash looked like a wolf bite, and erythematosus means 'red' for the typical rash. So the name reminds us the disease causes red rashes and can affect many parts of the body.