1. any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues. Familiarity information: AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details. â¢ AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE (noun).
There is no clearly understood or universally agreed-upon cause for gender identity disorder. However, most experts agree that there may be a strong biological basis for the disorder. The sex of a human baby is determined by chromosomes.
It is possible that some of the interaction effects of trauma type and gender found in previous research (Jeon et al., ) may be due to differences in peritraumatic dissociation experienced after trauma, since peritraumatic dissociation is a strong predictor of PTSD (Ozer, Best, Lipsey, & Weiss, ).