severe combined immunodeficiency

Noun severe combined immunodeficiency has 1 sense

• severe combined immunodeficiency(n = noun.state) scid, severe combined immunodeficiency disease - a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life;
is a kind of immunodeficiency, monogenic disease, monogenic disorder
has particulars: ada-scid, x-linked scid, x-scid