autosomal recessive defect

Questions about autosomal recessive defect

What does autosomal recessive defect mean?

autosomal recessive defect means "a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome".

What is another word for autosomal recessive defect?

Close synonyms include autosomal recessive disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autosomal recessive defect a common word?

autosomal recessive defect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.