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MUCOVISCIDOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mucoviscidosis mean? 

MUCOVISCIDOSIS (noun)
  The noun MUCOVISCIDOSIS has 1 sense:

1. the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is knownplay

  Familiarity information: MUCOVISCIDOSIS used as a noun is very rare.


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MUCOVISCIDOSIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

CF; cystic fibrosis; fibrocystic disease of the pancreas; mucoviscidosis; pancreatic fibrosis

Hypernyms ("mucoviscidosis" is a kind of...):

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

fibrosis (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)


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