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Tay-Sachs disease

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A hereditary disease that affects young children almost exclusively of eastern European Jewish descent, in which an enzyme deficiency leads to the accumulation of gangliosides in the brain and nerve tissue, resulting in mental retardation, convulsions, blindness, and, ultimately, death.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Warren Tay, (1843–1927), British physician, and Bernard, Sachs, (1858–1944), American neurologist.]

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