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IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE

An immunologic category of illness evoked by the deposition of antigen-antibody or antigen-antibody-complement complexes on cell surfaces, with subsequent involvement of breakdown commodity of complement, platelets, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and development of vasculitis; nephritis is general. Arthus phenomenon and serum sickness are classic examples, but much another disorders, including most of the connective tissue disease's, may belong in this immunologic category; immune composite disease's can also occur during a variety of disease's of known aetiology, such as subacute bacterial endocarditis. See: autoimmune disease. Synonym: immune composite mess, type III hypersensitivity reaction.
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