Meanings
plural mucopolysaccharidoses
- countableuncountableAny of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.
The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.
2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNNSynonyms: MPS
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)mewk-
- Proto-Italic*moukos
- Latinmūcus
- Englishmuco-
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
- Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
- Englishpoly-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱorkeh₂
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*ćárkaraH
- Proto-Indo-Aryan*śárkaraH
- Sanskritशर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
- Palisakkharā
- Ancient Greekσάκχαρ (sákkhar)
- Latinsaccharon
- Latinsaccharum
- Englishsaccharo-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Englishsaccharide
- Englishpolysaccharide
- Englishmucopolysaccharide
- Englishmucopolysaccharidosis
From mucopolysaccharide + -osis.
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