Associations to the word «Autoimmunity»

Wiktionary

AUTOIMMUNITY, noun. (pathology) (immunology) The condition where one's immune system attacks one's own tissues, i.e., an autoimmune disorder.

Dictionary definition

AUTOIMMUNITY, noun. Production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne