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self-limited
[ self-lim-i-tid, self- ]
adjective
- (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-limited1
First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences
Only in recent years have we come to appreciate how many diseases are self-limited.
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The disease is self-limited, that is, it will pass away of itself after a certain time.
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Probably the entire claim is without warrant, since influenza is a self-limited disease.
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In the sense of a definite duration of each paroxysm intermittent and remittent fevers are self-limited.
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The first of these is, that yellow fever is strictly a self-limited disease, and therefore is insusceptible of jugulation.
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