Medical Definition of Lesch-Nyhan disease

1. A sex-linked recessive inherited disease in humans that results from mutation in the gene for the purine salvage enzyme hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT), located on the X chromosome. Results in severe mental retardation. It is characterised by physical and mental retardation, and distressing behavioural abnormalities, such as compulsive self mutilation, hyperuricaemia, and choreoathetosis, and renal failure. Excess uric acid production exists due to the absence of an enzyme essential to purine metabolism. Inheritance: sex-linked recessive. (22 Sep 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesch-Nyhan Disease

Leroy
Leroy Robert Paige
lerp
lerps
LES
les
lesbian
Lesbian
lesbianism
lesbianism
lesbianisms
lesbians
lesbic
lesbo
Lesbos
Lesch-Nyhan disease (current term)
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
Lescol
Leser-Trelat sign
leses
lese majesty
lesion
lesion
lesioned
lesioning
lesions
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard Stainer
Leslie Richard Groves
Leslie Townes Hope

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