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noun
An autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the body and mostly affects men.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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History
Acronym of vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X chromosome, autoinflammatory, somatic, after the core features of the disorder. First discovered in October 2020, with the report from The New England Journal of Medicine and identified by a multidisciplinary team of scientists (see quotations below).
