ADA-SCID
- noun
- Specialized
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ADA-SCID
- The newborn was diagnosed with ADA-SCID after repeated infections and low immune cell counts.
Examples
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Gene therapy has been developed as a treatment option for patients with ADA-SCID.
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Early detection of ADA-SCID can improve long-term health outcomes for affected children.
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Children with ADA-SCID are at high risk for infections.
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The ADA-SCID mutation affects the immune system severely.
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Early detection of ADA-SCID can improve long-term health outcomes for affected children.
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The newborn was diagnosed with ADA-SCID after repeated infections and low immune cell counts.
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Gene therapy has been developed as a treatment option for patients with ADA-SCID.
Synonyms
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A rare condition passed from parents that makes the body's defence very weak so babies get serious infections
A rare condition passed from parents that makes babies unable to fight infections and often deadly without treatment
A rare inherited illness that makes the body's defence against infections very weak
Surface Forms
Morphology
ADA-SCID = ADA + SCID (opaque) = ADA + SCID
The term is a concatenation of two technical initialisms; the components are specialized medical abbreviations not transparently meaningful to general learners.
Etymology
ADA-SCID names both the cause and the illness: ADA stands for the enzyme adenosine deaminase, and SCID means 'severe combined immunodeficiency' or a 'very weak immune system'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of ADA as a 'clean-up' enzyme—when a change in the gene stops this clean-up, the body cannot make normal immune cells, so ADA-SCID is the form of SCID caused by a problem with ADA.