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

1 sense of severe combined immunodeficiency

Sense 1
severe combined immunodeficiency, severe combined immunodeficiency disease, SCID -- (a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life)
       => immunodeficiency -- (immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced)
       => monogenic disorder, monogenic disease -- (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)