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Hunter's syndrome

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Hunter's syndrome
n.
A metabolic deficiency syndrome caused by a lack of certain sulfatase and by an inability to break down mucopolysaccharides and characterized by the presence of mucopolysaccharides in connective tissue. Also called type II mucopolysaccharidosis.
Hunter's syndrome
Etymology: Charles Hunter, Canadian physician, 1873-1955; Gk, syn, together, dromos, course
a hereditary defect in mucopolysaccharide metabolism affecting only males, characterized by dwarfism, kyphosis, gargoylism, and mental retardation. It is transmitted as an X-linked recessive trait. Females who carry the gene can be identified by biochemical tests. Also called MPS II, X-linked mucopolysaccharidosis. See also mucopolysaccharidosis.


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Hunter's Syndrome causes cells in the body to be constantly damaged to the point where the body becomes completely crippled.
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Mary Wragg, 41, said her ex-husband told friends, his parents and a very ill girl's mum he would end the life of Jacob, 10, if the condition slowly killing him, Hunter's Syndrome, worsened.
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Andrew Wragg, of Worthing, West Sussex, appeared at Chichester Magistrates' Court charged with murdering his 10-year-old son Jacob, who suffered from Hunter's Syndrome.
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