one of several diseases that affect the skin and joints 狼疮
Examples from the Corpus
lupus• But it did not work at all well for the degenerative diseases such as cancer, lupus, or various heart conditions.• Like arthritis, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, lupus is a disease of the immune system gone awry.• It appears to be useful in treating the auto-immune disease of lupus in humans.
Originlupus
(1500-1600)Latin“wolf”; because people with the disease were thought to look as if they had been attacked by a wolf