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Lupus: An inflammatory, multisystem disorder in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, leading to such symptoms as achy joints, fever, arthritis, skin rashes and fatigue. The disease affects primarily young women of childbearing age. There are three types of lupus: discoid lupus erythematosus, drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus (see separate entries).