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auto-immune

auto-immune is the alternative form of autoimmune.

Meaning of autoimmune

Adjective

autoimmune (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to autoimmunity.
    • The massive usage of the same peptide blocks in microbial and human proteomes inficiates any causal relationship(s) between sharing of microbial amino acid motifs/structures and autoimmune reactions in humans.2012 June 1, Darja Kanduc, “Peptide cross-reactivity: the original sin of vaccines”, in Frontiers in Bioscience: Scholar Edition, volume 4, number 4, IMR Press, →DOI, →PMID, page 1395

Questions about auto-immune

What is auto-immune the alternative form of?
Auto-immune is the alternative form of autoimmune.

Words near auto-immune in the dictionary

  1. auto-ethnocide
  2. auto-fellatio
  3. auto-forwarding
  4. auto-generated
  5. auto-genocide
  6. auto-immune
  7. auto-injector
  8. auto-injectors
  9. auto-intoxication
  10. auto-lube
  11. auto-mimicries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auto-immune (page history and authors); autoimmune (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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