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Definition: Autoimmunity |
AutoimmunityNoun1. Production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Process whereby the immune system reacts against the body's own tissues. Autoimmunity may produce or be caused by autoimmune diseases. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Autoimmunity |
| Specialty definitions using "autoimmunity": Aleutian Mink Disease, ALLERGIST-IMMUNOLOGIST, allergy specialis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tracking the Causes of Diabetes Mellitus: from Viruses to Autoimmunity. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This response is called autoimmunity. (references) | |
Much knowledge has been gained about the structure and function of the neuromuscular junction, the fundamental aspects of the thymus gland and of autoimmunity, and the disorder itself. (references) | ||
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| "Autoimmunity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Autoimmunity" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
autoimmunity | 19 |
autoimmunity journal | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "autoimmunity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | autoimmunitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | auto-immuniteit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | autoimmuniteetti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | auto-immunité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Autoimmunität. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοανοσία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | autoimmunità . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | autoimmunityay auto-imunidade. (various references) autoinmunidad. (various references) autoimmunitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-m-n-o-t-t-u-u-y" | |
-4 letters: immunity, mutation, tautonym, titanium. | |
-5 letters: aminity, manitou, manumit, minutia, muonium, muttony, tinamou, tuition. | |
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