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Systemic lupus erythematosus: An inflammatory connective tissue disease of unknown cause that occurs chiefly in women. It is characterized especially by fever, skin rash and arthritis, and often by acute anemia, small hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes, inflammation of the pericardium (sack around the heart), and in serious cases by involvement of the kidneys and central nervous system.