Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun x-linked_scid

1 sense of x-linked scid

Sense 1
X-linked SCID, X-SCID -- (SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of T cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor)
       => 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)