scid

Other forms of scid

plural

scids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scid

What does scid mean?

scid means "a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life".

How many syllables are in scid?

scid has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for scid?

Close synonyms include severe combined immunodeficiency, severe combined immunodeficiency 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 scid a common word?

scid 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.