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severe combined immunodeficiency

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severe combined immune deficiency

 
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–noun Pathology.
a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment. Abbreviation: SCID
Also, severe combined immunodeficiency.
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severe combined immunodeficiency  
n.   Abbr. SCID
A usually fatal congenital disorder of the immune system in which the body is unable to produce enough B cells and T cells to resist infection.
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Main Entry: severe combined immunodeficiency
Function: noun
: a rare congenital disorder of the immune system that is characterized by inability to produce a normalcomplement of antibodies and T cells and that results usually in early death —abbreviation SCID; called also severe combined immune deficiency, severe combined immunodeficiencydisease; —see ADENOSINE DEAMINASE
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severe combined immunodeficiency se·vere combined immunodeficiency (sə-vǐr')
n.
Abbr. SCID
A usually fatal congenital immune system disorder in which the body is unable to produce enough B cells and T cells to resist infection.

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