INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY
Dictionary entry overview: What does infantile amaurotic idiocy mean? • INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY (noun)
The noun INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY has 1 sense:
1. a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occuring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood
Familiarity information: INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY (noun)
Meaning:
A hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occuring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
infantile amaurotic idiocy; Sachs disease; Tay-Sachs; Tay-Sachs disease
Hypernyms ("infantile amaurotic idiocy" is a kind of...):
monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)
autosomal recessive defect; autosomal recessive disease (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)
lipidosis (a disorder of lipid metabolism; abnormal levels of certain fats accumulate in the body)
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