severe combined immunodeficiency

Questions about severe combined immunodeficiency

What does severe combined immunodeficiency mean?

severe combined immunodeficiency 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".

What is another word for severe combined immunodeficiency?

Close synonyms include severe combined immunodeficiency disease, SCID. 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 severe combined immunodeficiency a common word?

severe combined immunodeficiency 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.