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mucopolysaccharidosis

[¦myü·kō‚päl·ē‚sak·ə·rə′dō·səs]
(medicine)
Any of several inborn metabolic disorders involving mucopolysaccharides; the six types are MPS I, Hurler's syndrome; MPS II, Hunter's syndrome; MPS III, Sanfillipo's syndrome; MPS IV, Morquio's syndrome; MPS V, Scheil's syndrome; and MPS VI, Maroteaux-Lamy's syndrome.
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One of these is mucopolysaccharidoses, a collective name for several types of inherited metabolic disorders.
In humans, clinicians have identified seven major classes of mucopolysaccharidoses. This was the first case seen in a mouse.
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