wilson's disease

1. 1.

   a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism; copper accumulates in the liver and then in the red blood cells and brain

   Synonymshepatolenticular degeneration

   Broadergenetic disease

Questions about wilson's disease

What does wilson's disease mean?

wilson's disease means "a rare inherited disorder of copper metabolism; copper accumulates in the liver and then in the red blood cells and brain".

What is another word for wilson's disease?

Close synonyms include hepatolenticular degeneration. 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 wilson's disease a common word?

wilson'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.