immunodeficiency disease

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• severe combined immunodeficiency disease — noun 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 • Syn:… …   Useful english dictionary

• combined immunodeficiency disease — 1. see under immunodeficiency. 2. an autosomal recessive disease of Arabian horses; foals lack their own cell mediated immunity and seem normal only as long as they have passive immunity from the maternal blood acquired in utero. Soon after the… …   Medical dictionary

• severe combined immunodeficiency disease — (SCID) see under immunodeficiency …   Medical dictionary

• hypopigmentation-immunodeficiency disease — Griscelli syndrome …   Medical dictionary

• Immunodeficiency — Infobox Disease Name = Immunodeficiency Caption = DiseasesDB = 21506 ICD10 = ICD10|D|84|9|d|80 ICD9 = ICD9|279.3 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D007153 In medicine, immunodeficiency (or immune deficiency) is …   Wikipedia

• immunodeficiency — A condition resulting from a defective immune mechanism; may be primary (due to a defect in the immune mechanism itself) or secondary (dependent upon another disease process), specific (due to a defect in either the B lymphocyte or the T… …   Medical dictionary

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• immunodeficiency — immunodeficient, adj. /im yeuh noh di fish euhn see, i myooh /, n., pl. immunodeficiencies. impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies. [1970 75; IMMUNO + DEFICIENCY] * * * Defect in immunity that… …   Universalium

• immunodeficiency — n. inability of the immune system to fight off infections due to a genetic or acquired disease …   English contemporary dictionary

• immunodeficiency — The decreased ability of the body to fight infection and disease …   English dictionary of cancer terms