Autoimmune disorder
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Used for
autoimmune dermatologic disorder, autoimmune endocrine disorder, autoimmune hematologic disorder, autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome, autoimmune respiratory disorder, autoimmune rheumatologic disease
See for
autoimmune gastrointestinal and liver disorder, autoimmune genitourinary disorder, autoimmune nervous system disorder, autoimmune urogenital disorder, urogenital autoimmune disorder
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Addison's disease, allergic arthritis, antiphospholipid syndrome, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, autoimmune thyroiditis, exophthalmos, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, glomerulonephritis, Graves disease, immune complex disease, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, pemphigus, Reiter's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus
Related Terms
autoantibody, autoantigen, Behcet's syndrome, myositis, neutropenia, periarteritis nodosa, polymyositis
Scope Note
heading term for a diverse group of disorders characterized by pathologenic immune reactions to autologous (self) tissue; for nonnpatholgical, developmental, or phenomenological aspects of autoimmunity, use AUTOIMMUNITY.
Facts
- A general autoimmune disorder is one that attacks a number of tissues throughout the body.
- An autoimmune disorder is one in which a person's immune system attacks his or her own body for unknown reasons.
- An autoimmune disorder is a condition in which the body's immune system becomes confused.
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