mucopolysaccharidosis

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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.

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