From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Titanoboa, /tiËtÉËnÉµËbÉµ.É/ ; meaning  titanic boa , is an extinct genus of snake that lived approximately 60â58 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the dinosaur extinction event.
When writer Flannery O'Connor was diagnosed with lupus in 1950 at age 25, the autoimmune disease was poorly understood, often confused with arthritis. O'Connor braved debilitating pain, immobility, and fatigue with her characteristic humor at times, calling her crutches flying buttresses.
Common immune mediated diseases. The name of the auto-immune disease lupus derives from the Latin word for wolf, and dates back to the 14th century when the disease was blamed on wolf bites. Lupus is a common form of immune mediated disease in dogs. It results from the immune system reacting against the dogâs own DNA.