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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 known
Familiarity information: MUCOVISCIDOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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