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NIEMANN-PICK DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disorder of lipid metabolism that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Niemann-Pick disease" is a kind of...):
inborn error of metabolism (any of a number of diseases in which an inherited defect (usually a missing or inadequate enzyme) results in an abnormality of metabolism)
autosomal recessive defect; autosomal recessive disease (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)
lipidosis (a disorder of lipid metabolism; abnormal levels of certain fats accumulate in the body)
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