hurler's disease

What does hurler's disease mean?

hurler's disease means "hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation".

What is another word for hurler's disease?

Close synonyms include Hurler's syndrome, gargoylism, dysostosis multiplex, lipochondrodystrophy. 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 hurler's disease a common word?

hurler's 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hurler's disease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.