Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun galactosemia

1 sense of galactosemia

Sense 1
galactosemia -- (a genetic disease (autosomal recessive) in which an enzyme needed to metabolize galactose is deficient or absent; typically develops shortly after birth)
       => inborn error of metabolism -- (any of a number of diseases in which an inherited defect (usually a missing or inadequate enzyme) results in an abnormality of metabolism)