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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

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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 by eczema, thrombocytopenia, immune deficiency, and bloody 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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