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mucolipidosis

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mucolipidosis /mu·co·lip·i·do·sis/ (mu?ko-lip?i-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
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.

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