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tay-sachs disease is a noun meaning "a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood". It carries one recorded sense.
a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tay-sachs disease come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.