AUTOIMMUNITY

autoimmunity

(noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

autoimmunity (countable and uncountable, plural autoimmunities)

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

Source: Wiktionary



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6 October 2024

DATELESS

(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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