severe combined immune deficiency

severe combined immune deficiency
a group of rare congenital disorders in which both cell-mediated and humoral immunity are lacking, causing susceptibility to a wide variety of illnesses and an inability to live in a normal environment.
Also, severe combined immunodeficiency. Abbr.: SCID.

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