Mondo Description Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disorder characterized by recurrent short episodes of fever and serositis resulting in pain in the abdomen, chest, joints and muscles.
Disease Ontology Description An autoimmune hypersensitivity disease characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and acute inflammation of the membranes lining the abdomen, joints and lungs; that has material basis in mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes the protein pyrin.