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Mucoviscidosis

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Cystic fibrosis. uncountable
  2. 2
    the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known wordnet

Etymology

From muco- + viscid + -osis.

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