SCID

American  

Pathology.

1. severe combined immune deficiency.

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SCID British  

abbreviation

1. 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

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Example Sentences

Fortunately, in San Francisco, researchers were testing a gene therapy for Artemis-deficient SCID.

From Science Magazine

The children had severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, or SCID, which is caused by an inherited genetic flaw that keeps the bone marrow from making healthy versions of the blood cells that form the immune system.

From Seattle Times

Afflicted by severe combined immunodeficiency or SCID, a hereditary disease that severely compromises or destroys the immune system, the ‘boy in the bubble’ was exquisitely vulnerable to infection.

From Nature

An earlier attempt to use gene therapy to treat severe combined immunodeficiency disease, or SCID, was halted in 2003 after researchers realized the therapy was giving the children cancer.

From Washington Post

"This is a first for patients with SCID-X1," she added, referring to the most common type of SCID.

From BBC