severe : Idioms & Phrases

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severe acute respiratory syndrome

  • noun a respiratory disease of unknown etiology that apparently originated in mainland China in 2003; characterized by fever and coughing or difficulty breathing or hypoxia; can be fatal
    SARS.
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severe combined immunodeficiency

  • noun 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
    severe combined immunodeficiency; SCID.
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severe combined immunodeficiency disease

  • noun 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
    severe combined immunodeficiency; SCID.
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