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noun
Any of a group of fatal inherited metabolic disorders associated with sphingomyelin accumulation in the central nervous system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
a disorder of lipid metabolism that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: inborn error of metabolism, autosomal recessive disease, autosomal recessive defect, lipidosis
History
Described by Albert Niemann in 1914 and by Ludwig Pick in the 1930s.
