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storage disease

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storage disease [′stȯr·ij di‚zēz]
(medicine)
Metabolic abnormality in which some substance (such as fats, proteins, or carbohydrates) accumulates in abnormal amounts in certain body tissues.


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Among the possible causes of black thyroid are minocycline-induced pigmentation, hemochromatosis, ochronosis, mucoviscidosis, ceroid storage disease, bruising, and hemorrhage.
These genetically engineered animals, now able to make their own beta-glucuronidase, show no signs of the storage disease.
The FDA in 1953 approved EDTA for use in treating heavy metal poisoning, such as lead poisoning, and a rare copper storage disease called Wilson's disease.
 
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