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self-limited

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self-lim·it·ed (slf-lm-td)
adj.
1. Limited by its or one's own characteristics rather than by external influences.
2. Medicine Running a definite course within a specific period; little modified by treatment. Used of a disease.
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Adj.1.self-limited - relating to a disease that tends to run a definite course without treatment
medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques


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