monogenic disorder — noun an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes • Syn: ↑monogenic disease • Hypernyms: ↑genetic disease, ↑genetic disorder, ↑genetic abnormality, ↑genetic defect, ↑congenital disease, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
monogenic — Relating to a hereditary disease or syndrome, or to an inherited characteristic, controlled by alleles at a single genetic locus. * * * mono·gen·ic jen ik, jēn adj of, relating to, or controlled by a single gene and esp. by either of an allelic… … Medical dictionary
congenital disease — noun a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically • Syn: ↑genetic disease, ↑genetic disorder, ↑genetic abnormality, ↑genetic defect, ↑inherited disease, ↑inherited disorder, ↑hereditary disease, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
genetic disease — noun a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically • Syn: ↑genetic disorder, ↑genetic abnormality, ↑genetic defect, ↑congenital disease, ↑inherited disease, ↑inherited disorder, ↑hereditary disease, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
hereditary disease — noun a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically • Syn: ↑genetic disease, ↑genetic disorder, ↑genetic abnormality, ↑genetic defect, ↑congenital disease, ↑inherited disease, ↑inherited disorder, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
inherited disease — noun a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically • Syn: ↑genetic disease, ↑genetic disorder, ↑genetic abnormality, ↑genetic defect, ↑congenital disease, ↑inherited disorder, ↑hereditary disease, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Tay-Sachs disease — noun a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood • Syn: ↑Tay Sachs, ↑Sachs disease,… … Useful english dictionary
Huntington's disease — noun hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia • Syn: ↑Huntington s chorea • Hypernyms: ↑chorea, ↑autosomal dominant disease, ↑autosomal dominant disorder, ↑monogenic disorder, ↑monogenic disease … Useful english dictionary
Sachs disease — noun a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood • Syn: ↑Tay Sachs disease, ↑Tay Sachs,… … Useful english dictionary
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
