tay-sachs disease

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Noun tay-sachs disease has 1 sense

Tay-Sachs disease, Tay-Sachs, Sachs disease, infantile amaurotic idiocy - a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occuring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood
--₁ is a kind of lipidosis; autosomal recessive disease, autosomal recessive defect; monogenic disorder, monogenic disease

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