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mucolipidosis
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mucolipidosis /mu·co·lip·i·do·sis/ (mu″ko-lip″ĭ-do´sis) pl. mucolipido´ses   any of a group of lysosomal storage diseases in which both glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides) and lipids accumulate in tissues but without excess of the former in the urine.
mu·co·lip·i·do·sis (myk-lp-dss)
n.
Any of a group of hereditary metabolic storage diseases resembling Hurler's syndrome but with normal urinary mucopolysaccharides.

mucolipidosis
[myo̅o̅′kōlip′idō′sis]
any of a group of metabolic disorders characterized by an accumulation of mucopolysaccharides and lipids in the tissues, but without an excess of mucopolysaccharides in the urine. Mucolipidosis includes I cell disease (mucolipidosis II) and pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy (mucolipidosis III).

mucolipidosis
a group of inherited lysosomal storage diseases in which mucopolysaccharides and lipids accumulate in tissues. Mucolipidosis I is also called sialosis.

mucolipidosis II
lysosomes contain large inclusions of undigested glycosaminoglycans and glycolipids. Called also I-cell disease.

mucolipidosis
Any of 4 AR lysosomal storage diseases characterized by accumulation of glycolipids in interstitial tissues, which have clinical features similar to the mucopolysaccharidoses


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