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AUTOIMMUNITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("autoimmunity" is a kind of...):
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
Holonyms ("autoimmunity" is a part of...):
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)
Derivation:
autoimmune (of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body)
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