adenosine deaminase deficiency

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noun

a severe immune system disorder caused by a genetic inability to produce adenosine deaminase.

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Also called ADA deficiency.

Words nearby adenosine deaminase deficiency

adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate, adenosine 5′-diphosphate, adenosine 5′-triphosphate, adenosine cyclic monophosphate, adenosine deaminase, adenosine deaminase deficiency, adenosine diphosphate, adenosine monophosphate, adenosine phosphate, adenosine triphosphatase, adenosine triphosphate

How to use adenosine deaminase deficiency in a sentence

At 11, back in his home town of Rosario, Argentina, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency.
Enjoy Argentina’s Lionel Messi While You Can|Peter Pomerantsev|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dominant models of depression tend to treat the condition as a defect or deficiency.
How Depression Could Save Your Life|Nick Romeo|March 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had no sign of a spreading infection, a tumor, or auto-immune deficiency.
Arafat’s Polonium Poisoning Mystery Resurfaces|Christopher Dickey|November 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The underlying statute that keeps government from fully operating during a shutdown is an 1870 law, the Anti-Deficiency Act.
This Loophole Can End the Government Shutdown|Ben Jacobs|October 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

GRID, gay-related immune deficiency, became AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
You Don’t Actually Have Cancer|Randi Hutter Epstein|July 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In fact, some memories are much oftener weak from deficiency in reviving power than from feebleness of first impressions.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Deficiency of rennin has the same significance as deficiency of pepsin, and is more easily recognized.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Lastly the pawner is liable for any deficiency after the sale of the thing pawned, unless released by statute.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
If the losses exceed the premiums thus paid in advance, then an assessment is made on each member to cover the deficiency.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
A second is the deficiency in educational influences, which have had so much to do with human progress.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris