saccharidosis

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English

Etymology

From saccharide +‎ -osis.

Noun

saccharidosis (countable and uncountable, plural saccharidoses)

  1. (pathology) Any disorder due to faulty metabolism of sugars.
    • 2002, Masao Mato, “Inclusions in novel perivascular macrophages (Mato's fluorescent granular perithelial cells) and neurons in the cerebral cortex of Hex A-and Hex B-deficient mice”, in Acta Neuropathologica, volume 103, page 119:
      The foamy cells that appeared along the cerebral microvessels in lipidosis and saccharidosis were identified as perivascular macrophages (Mato's fluorescent granular perithelial cells: FGP cells).

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