SCID

 Dictionary entry overview: What does SCID mean? 

• SCID (noun)
  The noun SCID has 1 sense:

1. a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life

  Familiarity information: SCID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCID (noun)

Meaning:

A congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

SCID; severe combined immunodeficiency; severe combined immunodeficiency disease

Hypernyms ("SCID" is a kind of...):

immunodeficiency (immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced)

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "SCID"):

ADA-SCID (SCID resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for adenosine deaminase)

X-linked SCID; X-SCID (SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of T cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor)