SCID

SCID

abbr.

severe combined immunodeficiency

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SCID

abbreviation for

(Medicine / Pathology) severe combined immune deficiency; a serious condition in which babies are born with reduced numbers of T- and B-lymphocytes, which impairs their immune systems and makes them susceptible to severe infections and cancer

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

SCID - 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 severe combined immunodeficiency, severe combined immunodeficiency disease immunodeficiency - immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced monogenic disease, monogenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes ADA-SCID - SCID resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for adenosine deaminase X-linked SCID, X-SCID - SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of T cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor