PROGERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progeria mean? 

• PROGERIA (noun)
  The noun PROGERIA has 1 sense:

1. a rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

 Context examples 

Mutatations in the LMNA gene produce abberant alleles that have been linked to Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.

(LMNA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Adult progeria is caused by a mutation (change) in a gene involved in cell division.

(Adult progeria, NCI Dictionary)