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Word definitions for lupus in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lupus \Lu"pus\, n. [L., a wolf. See Wolf .] (Med.) originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But it did not work at all well for the degenerative diseases such as cancer, lupus , or various heart conditions. ▪ It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans. ▪ Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lupus means "wolf" in Latin. It was a Latin cognomen and since then has also become a given name and family name. Lupus may refer to: Wulfstan (died 956) , Archbishop of York, who wrote under the pen name Lupus Lupus of Troyes (ca. 383 - ca. 478), French ...
Usage examples of lupus.
And in between there had been an appalling defeat, for which Caepio managed to blame Marius rather than Lupus.
For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.
Because with Ingild dead, the Jann no longer a factor, and his own power-play circumvented, the Lupus Cluster faced the threat of peace for the first time in generations.
Various skin diseases are regarded as local expressions of, or as being materially modified by, the scrofulous diathesis, as eczema, impetigo, and lupus.
The troops were hopelessly inexperienced, he said, they would need the full hundred days of training before they could cope with any sort of battle, a lot of the equipment was substandard, Lupus had better settle down and accept things for what they were instead of dwelling endlessly upon Pompey Strabo and the stolen veteran legions.
The Lupus had followed down their Triumph-class aerodyne, the Wulfstag, waiting until the massive troop carrier ground to a halt using Highlake Basin as a modified landing field.
In worst cases, that can lead to organ failure, but it can also lead to other autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Cindy, nee Cynara, called Cinnamon, died many years later of a disease we now know to be lupus.
But there is no use in placing temptation before any, and Porus and Lupus will have told how the Roman ladies flung their bracelets to you.
Cokebottle and the two other Gnawers lifted their heads, then pulled themselves up to sit in lupus form, staring toward the open door, toward the night outside.
Lupus a purveyor had bought and ingrossed up all the day before, and so I was deceived.
He could jump off this platform and elude Lupus yet again, leading him another merry chase through the station, or he could crash the gate and find a way to get Marcus back through.
Our ancestors apparently domesticated them, breeding out the fierceness, breeding in companionability, eventually turning the Ice Age Canis lupus pallipes into Canis familiaris, the modern pooch with its 300 sundry breeds.
Sprague money would keep her out of the gas chamber, she'd get eaten alive at Atascadero or a women's prison until the lupus got her, Martha would be ravaged, and Emmett and Madeleine would still have each other--withholding/obstruction beefs against them would be too second-hand to prosecute on.
You started telling Carl and me about your early work on cures for sickle cell and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and lupus.