Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Definition

noun
A usually fatal congenital disorder of the immune system in which the body is unable to produce enough B cells and T cells to resist infection.
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Synonyms:
  • scid
  • severe combined immunodeficiency disease

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Sentence Examples

  • By the Public Health Genetics Unit Children with severe combined immunodeficiency have been treated using gene therapy.

  • Adenosine deaminase (ADA)-An enzyme that is lacking in a specific type of severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID).

  • For example, severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) is caused by the defective development or function of these two types of lymphocytes.

  • The frequency of severe combined immunodeficiency is estimated to be one out of every 50,000 to 500,000 births, and of combined variable immunodeficiency, one out of every 10,000 to 50,000 births.

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