systemic lupus erythematosus

English

Alternative forms

• SLE (abbreviation)

Etymology

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Noun

systemic lupus erythematosus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A systemic autoimmune disease (or autoimmune connective tissue disease), where the immune system attacks the body's cells and tissue and causes inflammation and tissue damage.

Synonyms

• lupus

Translations

systemic autoimmune disease

• Arabic: ذِئْبَة حَمْرَاء f (ḏiʔba(t) ḥamrāʔ), ذِئْبَة حَمَامِيَّة مَجْمُوعِيَّة f (ḏiʔba(t) ḥamāmiyya(t) majmūʕiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 系統性紅斑狼瘡／系统性红斑狼疮 (xìtǒngxìng hóngbān lángchuāng)

• Esperanto: sistema ruĝa lupuso
• Finnish: SLE (fi), systeeminen lupus erytematosus, punahukka (fi)
• French: lupus (fr) m, lupus érythémateux disséminé (fr) m
• German: Lupus erythematodes m
• Russian: систе́мная кра́сная волча́нка f (sistémnaja krásnaja volčánka)
• Spanish: lupus eritematoso sistémico m
• Turkish: sistemik lupus eritematozus

Further reading

• systemic lupus erythematosus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia