mucopolysaccharidosisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From mucopolysaccharide +‎ -osis.

名詞

mucopolysaccharidosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucopolysaccharidoses)

1. Any of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) MPS

   • 2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN‎:

     The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.

下位語

派生語

• mucopolysaccharidotic

関連する語

• oligosaccharidosis

参考

• saccharidosis