infantile amaurotic idiocy

Noun infantile amaurotic idiocy has 1 sense

• infantile amaurotic idiocy(n = noun.state) sachs disease, tay-sachs, tay-sachs disease - a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood; Array
is a kind of monogenic disease, monogenic disorder, autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease, lipidosis