SLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SLE mean? 

• SLE (noun)
  The noun SLE has 1 sense:

1. an inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms

  Familiarity information: SLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disseminated lupus erythematosus; SLE; systemic lupus erythematosus

Hypernyms ("SLE" is a kind of...):

lupus (any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease)

 Context examples 

Also called SLE and systemic lupus erythematosus.

(Lupus, NCI Dictionary)

Also called: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Discoid lupus, SLE, Subacute cutaneous lupus, Systemic lupus erythematosus

(Lupus, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

Pack up your kit and go for’ard into the fo’c’sle. You’re a boat-puller now. You’re promoted; see?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The best sailorman in the fo’c’sle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Cabin-boy at twelve, ship’s boy at fourteen, ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo’c’sle, infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself—navigation, mathematics, science, literature, and what not.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)