mucopolysaccharidosis

English

Etymology

From mucopolysaccharide +‎ -osis.

Noun

mucopolysaccharidosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucopolysaccharidoses)

1. Any of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) MPS

   • 2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.

Hyponyms

• Hunter syndrome
• Hurler syndrome
• mucopolysaccharidosis type I
• mucopolysaccharidosis type II
• mucopolysaccharidosis type III
• Sanfilippo syndrome

 

Derived terms

• mucopolysaccharidotic

Related terms

• oligosaccharidosis

See also

• saccharidosis