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 • Sep. 22, 2021

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 • Apr. 17, 2019

But a cure for the most common form – X-linked SCID, which is only found in boys – had remained elusive until now.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2019

His disorder was evidence that both his mother and father, while healthy themselves, carried a recessive gene for SCID.

From Time Magazine Archive

But because of SCID, I’m not going anywhere.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon