autoimmune hemolytic anemia
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autoimmune hemolytic anemia
(¦öd·ō·i¦myün ′hē·mə¦lid·ik ə′nēm·yə)
(immunology) An autoimmune disease in which antibodies initiate complement lysis of red blood cells.
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Either of two forms of hemolytic anemia involving autoantibodies against red cell antigens; a cold-antibody type, caused by hemagglutinating cold antibody; and a warm-antibody type, due to serum autoantibodies that react with the patient's red blood cells, with antigenic specificity being chiefly in the Rh complex. Also called autoallergic hemolytic anemia.
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