autoimmune disease

Noun autoimmune disease has 1 sense

• autoimmune disease(n = noun.state) autoimmune disorder - 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;
is a kind of disease
has particulars: myasthenia, myasthenia gravis, disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, ms, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, iddm, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, type i diabetes, exophthalmic goiter, graves' disease, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, marie-strumpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis, discoid lupus erythematosus, dle, hashimoto's disease, le, lupus erythematosus, pemphigus, dermatosclerosis, scleroderma, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, thrombocytopenic purpura, werlhof's disease
has parts: autoimmunity