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severe combined immune deficiency

or severe combined immunodeficiency

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment. : SCID


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