self-limited

[ self-lim-i-tid, self- ]

adjective

1. (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-limited¹

First recorded in 1835–45

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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