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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autoimmune

1952, from auto- + immune.

Wiktionary
autoimmune

a. (context pathology immunology English) Of or pertaining to autoimmunity.

WordNet
autoimmune

adj. of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body

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Autoimmune (album)

Autoimmune is an album by Meat Beat Manifesto. Originally announced as a twenty track 2xCD release, Dangers decided to shorten the album to a single disc with different track listings between the US and European releases. Stylistically, it steps up the pace from other recent Meat Beat Manifesto albums, using elements of dub, hip-hop, industrial, breakbeat and more, and this saw the album being billed as a partial return to the early industrial sound of the band in the late 1980s. The album has also been described as Jack Dangers' take on dubstep, though Dangers has stated that Meat Beat Manifesto has always utilized the underlying concepts of that particular genre. This is the first Meat Beat Manifesto album with Danger's vocals since Actual Sounds + Voices in 1998; he appears on the track "Solid Waste". The album cover continues the checker-board/grid theme also seen on earlier Meat Beat Manifesto albums Actual Sounds + Voices, RUOK?, and the Off-Centre EP. Most of the remaining songs that were excised from the original double-disc concept were later released on an EP available only on the Autoimmune tour.

Usage examples of "autoimmune".

Rheumatoid and some other forms of arthritis are not diseases associated with aging, but rather autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies attack your cartilage, which is what triggers that inflammation and joint pain.

We are seeing the rise of illness that is associated with psychological stress and with the autoimmune system.

In the case of the autoimmune system a deeper level of consciousness is at work.

AIDS, cancer, allergies, asthma, candida albicans, lowered resistance to infection and other illnesses are related to the functioning of the autoimmune system.

Normally, the population levels of the candida in our bodies are maintained at a beneficial level but in some cases, such as after over-doses of anti-biotics, the autoimmune system seems not to know its identity, the difference between self and other.

When this happens the populations of candida explode without the autoimmune system controlling them.

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.

Although infections can cause this problem, a leading culprit is autoimmune disease, where your own guard cells attack and kill the adrenal.

The triggering of autoimmune disorders by ERV is a rich area for research.

In humans, ERV activation has been suggested as a cause of some autoimmune diseases.

Quarren go black all over, then their autoimmune system goes insane and liquefies their bones.

Red bumps could be caused by anything from a viral infection to autoimmune disease, and few skin lesions are unique enough to point to an immediate diagnosis.

Once a year, all the barons traveled to the Dulce facility to have their blood filtered and their autoimmune systems boosted.

I had these placental abruptions because of the autoimmune condition that made me so violently nauseated.

What with my still undiagnosed autoimmune disease and all the fasting and the death wish and so forth, my body kept breaking down and requiring surgery for one thing or another.