From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlupuslu‧pus /ˈluːpəs/ noun [uncountable] one of several diseases that affect the skin and joints
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lupus• But it did not work at all well for the degenerative diseases such as cancer, lupus, or various heart conditions.• Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.• It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans.Origin lupus (1500-1600) Latin “wolf”; because people with the disease were thought to look as if they had been attacked by a wolf 