autoimmune disorder

1. 1.

   any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues

   Synonymsautoimmune disease

   Broaderdisease

   Narrowermyasthenia gravismultiple sclerosistype I diabetesGraves' diseaserheumatoid arthritisankylosing spondylitisdiscoid lupus erythematosusHashimoto's diseaselupus erythematosuspemphigus

   Partsautoimmunity

Questions about autoimmune disorder

What does autoimmune disorder mean?

autoimmune disorder means "any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues".

What is another word for autoimmune disorder?

Close synonyms include autoimmune disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autoimmune disorder a common word?

autoimmune disorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.