SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY as NOUN

1. 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
   Synonym(s)
   • SCID (what does SCID mean?)
   • severe combined immunodeficiency disease (what does severe combined immunodeficiency disease mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) severe combined immunodeficiency is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • immunodeficiency (what does immunodeficiency mean?)
   • monogenic disorder (what does monogenic disorder mean?)
   • monogenic disease (what does monogenic disease mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • ADA-SCID (what does ADA-SCID mean?)
   • X-linked SCID (what does X-linked SCID mean?)
   • X-SCID (what does X-SCID mean?)