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Scleroderma vs Lupus - What's the difference?

scleroderma | lupus |

As nouns the difference between scleroderma and lupus

is that scleroderma is a chronic disease characterized by excessive deposits of collagen in the skin or other organs while lupus is any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.

As a proper noun Lupus is

a summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.

scleroderma

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A chronic disease characterized by excessive deposits of collagen in the skin or other organs.
  • lupus

    Translingual

    Noun

    (head)
  • The specific name of the grey wolf, Canis lupus .
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