self-limited

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

adjective

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

Also self-limiting.

Origin of self-limited

First recorded in 1835–45

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Examples from the Web for self-limited

Historical Examples of self-limited

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.
Socialism and Democracy in Europe
Samuel P. Orth
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.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)
Various

self-limited in Medicine

self-limited

adj.

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

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