Meanings
- not comparableimmunologyOf or pertaining to autoimmunity.
The massive usage of the same peptide blocks in microbial and human proteomes inficiates any causal relationship(s) between sharing of microbial amino acid motifs/structures and autoimmune reactions in humans.
2012 June 1, Darja Kanduc, “Peptide cross-reactivity: the original sin of vaccines”, in Frontiers in Bioscience: Scholar Edition, volume 4, number 4, IMR Press, →DOI, →PMID, page 13951 more example
Pinkett Smith has shared publicly that she has alopecia areata, addressing her and other patients’ experiences during her June 1 episode of “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere, according to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.
2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Proto-Indo-European*tó-
- Proto-Hellenic*autós
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ew
- Ancient Greekαὖ (aû)
- Ancient Greekτόν (tón)
- Ancient Greekαὐτός (autós)
- Ancient Greekαὐτο- (auto-)
- Englishauto-
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-
- Proto-Indo-European*moy-nós
- Proto-Italic*moinos
- Latinmūnus
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Latinin- -is
- Latinimmūnis
- Middle Frenchimmun
- Englishimmune
- Englishautoimmune
Translations
Arabic مَنَاعِيّ ذَاتِيّ
- مَنَاعِيّ ذَاتِيّ (manāʕiyy ḏātiyy)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Bulgarian автоиму́нен
- автоиму́нен (avtoimúnen)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Catalan autoimmune
- autoimmuneof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Chinese Mandarin 自身免疫的
- 自身免疫的 (zìshēn miǎnyì de)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Czech autoimunitní
- autoimunitníof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Danish autoimmun
- autoimmunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Dutch auto-immuun
- auto-immuunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Finnish autoimmuuni-
- autoimmuuni-of or pertaining to autoimmunity
French auto-immun
- auto-immunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
German autoimmun
- autoimmunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Hungarian autoimmun
- autoimmunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Indonesian autoimun
- autoimunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Irish uath-imdhíonachta
- uath-imdhíonachtaof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Italian autoimmune
- autoimmuneof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Japanese 自己免疫の
- 自己免疫の (jikomen'eki no)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Korean 자가 면역(自家免疫)의
- 자가 면역(自家免疫)의 (jaga myeonyeog-ui)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Norwegian autoimmun
- autoimmunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Portuguese autoimune
- autoimuneof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Romanian autoimun
- autoimunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Russian аутоиммунный
- аутоиммунный (autoimmunnyj)of or pertaining to autoimmunity
Spanish autoinmune, autoinmunitario
- autoinmuneof or pertaining to autoimmunity
- autoinmunitarioof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Swedish autoimmun
- autoimmunof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Turkish otoimmün
- otoimmünof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Welsh hunanimíwn
- hunanimíwnof or pertaining to autoimmunity
Cite this entry
autoimmune. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoimmune
“autoimmune.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoimmune. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autoimmune,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoimmune.
Source: autoimmune on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.