SLE n 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 [syn: {systemic lupus erythematosus}, {SLE}, {disseminated lupus erythematosus}]
Sle \Sle\ (sl[=e]), v. t. To slay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]