Definition of autoimmune disease Autoimmune disease
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What does autoimmune disease mean?
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| autoimmune disease - 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 | ||
| autoimmune disorder | ||
| disease an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning | ||
| myasthenia gravis, myasthenia a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions | ||
| disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, ms a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers | ||
| autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease | ||
| exophthalmic goiter, graves' disease exophthalmos occurring in association with goiter; hyperthyroidism with protrusion of the eyeballs | ||
| atrophic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint | ||
| ankylosing spondylitis, marie-strumpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis a chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine; sometimes leads to ankylosis | ||
| discoid lupus erythematosus, dle a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over the cheeks and bridge of the nose | ||
| hashimoto's disease autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland; most common in middle-aged women | ||
| le, lupus erythematosus a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints) | ||
| pemphigus a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | ||
| autoimmunity production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | ||
| dermatosclerosis, scleroderma genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles | ||
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