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self-limited

[self-lim-i-tid, self-]
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adjective
  1. (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
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Also self-limiting.

Origin of self-limited

First recorded in 1835–45
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for self-limited

Historical Examples

  • But how is an actualization begotten from that self-limited (intelligible)?

    Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1

    Plotinos (Plotinus)

  • Only in recent years have we come to appreciate how many diseases are self-limited.

    Psychotherapy

    James J. Walsh

  • All this indicates that Socialism is breaking the bonds of self-limited class egoism.

  • The Christian God is the infinite, definite substance, self-limited or defined by his essential nature.

    Ten Great Religions

    James Freeman Clarke

  • The disease is self-limited, that is, it will pass away of itself after a certain time.

self-limited in Medicine

self-limited

adj.
  1. Running a definite course within a specific period; little modified by treatment. Used of a disease.
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