autosomal recessive disease

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   a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome

   Synonymsautosomal recessive defect

   Broadergenetic disease

   Narrowerlimb-girdle muscular dystrophyNiemann-Pick diseaseTay-Sachs diseasethrombastheniatyrosinemiaWerdnig-Hoffman disease

Questions about autosomal recessive disease

What does autosomal recessive disease mean?

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

What is another word for autosomal recessive disease?

Close synonyms include autosomal recessive defect. 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 disease a common word?

autosomal recessive disease 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.