a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are sus…
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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
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a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are sus…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, General medicine, Medical genetics.immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, General medicine.immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, General medicine.immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, General medicine.using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Medical genetics.using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Medical genetics.using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Medical genetics.using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Medical genetics.a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated n…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, General medicine, Medical genetics.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Immunology, General medicine.a genetic disorder characterized by high levels of beta-lipoproteins and cholesterol; can lead to atherosclerosis at an early age
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immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA deficiency can lead to one fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia; "ADA deficiency can lead to one fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital.
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a popu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: congenital, disease, affecting, cells, result.Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many…
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