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SLE

SLE is the initialism of systemic lupus erythematosus.

SLE is the initialism of single-layer ejecta.

SLE is the abbreviation of Seletar Expressway.

Meaning of systemic lupus erythematosus

Noun

systemic lupus erythematosus (uncountable)

  1. A systemic autoimmune disease (or autoimmune connective tissue disease), where the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissue and causes inflammation and tissue damage.
    • Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11...
    Synonyms:
    lupus

Forms of SLE

pluralSLEs

Questions about SLE

What is SLE the initialism of?
SLE is the initialism of systemic lupus erythematosus.

Words near SLE in the dictionary

  1. SLD
  2. SLDMB
  3. SLDMBs
  4. SLDRAM
  5. SLDs
  6. SLE
  7. Sleaford
  8. slean
  9. sleans
  10. Sleat
  11. sleave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SLE (page history and authors); systemic lupus erythematosus (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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