Letterer-Siwe disease
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Letterer-Siwe disease
[′led·ə·rər ′zē·və di‚zēz] (medicine)
A fatal disease of infants and young children, of unknown etiology, characterized by hyperplasia of the reticuloendothelial system without lipid storage.