English noun: severe combined immunodeficiency | |||
1. | severe combined immunodeficiency (state) 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 | ||
Synonyms | SCID, severe combined immunodeficiency disease | ||
Broader (hypernym) | immunodeficiency, monogenic disease, monogenic disorder | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | ADA-SCID, X-linked SCID, X-SCID | ||