Noun autoimmune disease has 1 sense
  1. autoimmune disease, 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
    --1 is a kind of disease
    --1 has parts: autoimmunity
    --1 has particulars:
     type I diabetes, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, juvenile-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, growth-onset diabetes, ketosis-prone diabetes, ketoacidosis-prone diabetes, autoimmune diabetes; rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, rheumatism; ankylosing spondylitis, Marie-Strumpell disease, rheumatoid spondylitis; discoid lupus erythematosus, DLE; Hashimoto's disease; lupus erythematosus, LE; scleroderma, dermatosclerosis; thrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, Werlhof's disease
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