INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infantile amaurotic idiocy mean? 

• INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY (noun)
  The noun INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY used as a noun is very rare.

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• INFANTILE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Synonyms:

infantile amaurotic idiocy; Sachs disease; Tay-Sachs; Tay-Sachs disease

Hypernyms ("infantile amaurotic idiocy" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

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)