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autoimmune disease
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Autoimmune disease
Autoimmune diseases arise from an abnormal immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body (autoimmunity). This may be restricted to certain organs (e.g. in autoimmune thyroiditis) or involve a particular tissue in different places (e.g. Goodpasture's disease which may affect the basement membrane in both the lung and the kidney).
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autoimmune disease
Noun
1. 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
(synonym) autoimmune disorder
(hypernym) disease
(hyponym) type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes
(part-meronym) autoimmunity
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autoimmune
adjective
referring to an immune reaction in a person to antigens in his own tissue
autoimmune disease = disease where the patient's own cells are attacked by autoantibodies; rheumatoid arthritis is thought to be an autoimmune disease
referring to an immune reaction in a person to antigens in his own tissue
autoimmune disease = disease where the patient's own cells are attacked by autoantibodies; rheumatoid arthritis is thought to be an autoimmune disease
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autoimmune disease
A condition in which the body recognizes its own tissues as foreign and directs an immune response against them.
A Service of the National Cancer Institute.
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autoimmune (AW-toh-ih-MYOON) disease
disorder of the body's immune system in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys body tissue that it believes to be foreign.
Source: The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC), NIH Publication No. 07–3016, October 2006 (About)
