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autoimmune

/ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjuːn/

autoimmune adjective: of or pertaining to autoimmunity.

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
    • Pinkett Smith has shared publicly that she has alopecia areata, addressing her and other patients’ experiences during her June 1 episode of “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere, according to the National...2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN

autoimmune meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian

autoimmune in Tamil

தன்னுடல் தாக்குமை, தன்னெதிர்ப்பு, ஒரு உடலில் உள்ள அணுக்கள்

autoimmune in Arabic

of or pertaining to autoimmunity
مَنَاعِيّ ذَاتِيّ manāʕiyy ḏātiyy

autoimmune in Indonesian

of or pertaining to autoimmunity
autoimun

Origin of autoimmune

From auto- + immune.

Words formed from autoimmune

Questions about autoimmune

What does autoimmune mean?
Autoimmune means of or pertaining to autoimmunity.
What is autoimmune in Tamil?
Autoimmune in Tamil is தன்னுடல் தாக்குமை, தன்னெதிர்ப்பு, ஒரு உடலில் உள்ள அணுக்கள். See Autoimmune meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is autoimmune?
Autoimmune is an adjective.
How do you pronounce autoimmune?
Autoimmune is pronounced /ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjuːn/.

Words near autoimmune in the dictionary

  1. autoignition temperatures
  2. autoignitions
  3. autoiliac
  4. autoimitation
  5. autoimitations
  6. autoimmune
  7. autoimmunisation
  8. autoimmunisations
  9. autoimmunities
  10. autoimmunity
  11. autoimmunization

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: autoimmune (page history and authors); autoimmune (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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