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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hereditary sex-linked recessive disorder characterized by chronic eczema, recurring infections, and a decrease in the number of white blood cells and platelets.
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- noun medicine A rare
X-linked recessive disease characterized byeczema ,thrombocytopenia ,immune deficiency , andbloody diarrhea .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Alfred Wiskott, (1898–1978), German pediatrician, and Robert Anderson Aldrich, (1917–1998), American physician.]
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