English > autoimmune disorder: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonym | autoimmune disease |
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| Parts | autoimmunity | production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body |
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| Narrower | Graves' disease, exophthalmic goiter | exophthalmos occurring in association with goiter |
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| Hashimoto's disease | autoimmune disorder of the thyroid gland |
| ankylosing spondylitis, Marie-Strumpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis | A chronic form of spondylitis primarily in males and marked by impaired mobility of the spine |
| discoid lupus erythematosus, DLE | A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40 |
| lupus erythematosus, LE | A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints) |
| multiple sclerosis, MS, disseminated sclerosis, disseminated multiple sclerosis | A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers |
| myasthenia gravis, myasthenia | A chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck) |
| pemphigus | A skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane |
| rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism | A chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities |
| scleroderma, dermatosclerosis | An autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue |
| thrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease | purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood platelets which can result from a variety of factors |
| type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset |
| Broader | disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
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| Catalan | malaltia autoimmunitària |
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