autoimmune
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- adjective
- /ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjun/
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autoinmune
- It's an autoimmune disorder.
- autoimmune disease
- autoimmune disorder
- autoimmune condition
They were all terminal, progressive autoimmune illnesses with no cure.
- They were all terminal, progressive autoimmune illnesses with no cure.
- Nobody's really interested in reversing autoimmune conditions for free.
- How can this autoimmune response be subverted by a cancer cell?
- We can't figure out why the guy's joints erupted with autoimmune arthritis.
- In some people, these inflammatory chemicals can actually flare up or create autoimmune conditions.
- So vitiligo is autoimmune, meaning your immune system is attacking itself.
- And if you look at what an autoimmune condition is, it's the body attacking itself.
- New research has shown that the bubonic plague might have selected adna variant that benefits certain autoimmune disorders.
- Basically that's how you create autoimmune problems.
- It takes no discipline to maintain my really strict autoimmune diet.
- It's it's like an autoimmune based protocol.
- And we have, I have second cousins and a lot of autoimmune problems on my dad's side.
- And I just know, yeah, the quality of my thoughts from this mold autoimmune stuff is like, really, really.
Examples
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-You know, when I was 29, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder.
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However, for each target tissue, the mechanism of the autoimmune reaction is different.
Academic text (2010) -
We think it's an autoimmune disorder.
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Some human patients make autoimmune reactions against their own myelin.
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A rare life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
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So vitiligo is autoimmune, meaning your immune system is attacking itself.
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Endometriosis is essentially an inflammatory autoimmune condition.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease involving multiple immune pathways and cell types.
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The incidence of autoimmune disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, increases with increasing age.
Academic text (2012) -
Chris Plate, 22, has had an autoimmune disease since he was four.
Synonyms
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9.9
Immune cells or antibodies that attack the body's own tissues
Compounds
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4.1
A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues
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A disease in which the immune system attacks the body's healthy parts
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A type of diabetes when the body's immune system destroys insulin-producing cells, so people need insulin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word autoimmune has two parts: auto- meaning 'self' (the same auto- you see in automatic) and immune meaning 'protected' or 'safe from disease'. So an autoimmune reaction is when the body's own defense attacks its own healthy cells instead of protecting them.