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Tay-sachs Disease

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Noun

1. infantile amaurotic idiocy, sachs disease, tay-sachs, tay-sachs disease

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tay-sachs Disease

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noun
an inherited disorder, caused by a faulty recessive gene, in which lipids accumulate in the brain, leading to learning difficulties and blindness. It occurs mostly in Ashkenazi Jews

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Tay-sachs Disease

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a hereditary condition, found chiefly among descendants of some Eastern European Jews, caused by an enzyme deficiency and characterized by mental retardation, paralysis, and death in early childhood

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tay-sachs Disease

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n.
A hereditary disease that affects young children almost exclusively of eastern European Jewish descent, in which an enzyme deficiency leads to the accumulation of gangliosides in the brain and nerve tissue, resulting in intellectual disability, convulsions, blindness, and, ultimately, death.

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