storage disease (redirected from Lipid storage disease)

storage disease

n.

Any of various metabolic disorders usually caused by a congenital enzyme deficiency and characterized by the accumulation of a specific substance, such as a lipid or protein, within tissues.

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storage disease

any metabolic disorder in which some substance (e.g. fats, proteins or carbohydrates) accumulates in certain cells in abnormal amounts; called also thesaurismosis, thesaurosis.

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lipid storage disease

any disorder of cellular metabolism that results in accumulation of lipids in tissues, e.g. gangliosidosis, sphingomyelinosis, gaucher's disease, globoid cell leukodystrophy, metachromatic leukodystrophy. Called also lipidosis.

lysosomal storage disease

any inborn error of metabolism in which the deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme results in the accumulation of the substance normally degraded by that enzyme in the lysosomes of certain cells. These diseases are further classified, depending on the nature of the stored substance, as glycogen storage diseases (glycogenoses), sphingolipidoses, mucopolysaccharidoses and mucolipidoses.