See Also: mucopolysaccharidoses(medicine)

scuola (iou) and mucopolysaccharidoses (medicine)


scuola (iou)



scuola noun. ['skwola] Pl. -le [-le]. M19.
[Italian = school.]
In Venice, any of the buildings in which the medieval religious confraternities or guilds used to meet, a guildhall; Hist. any of these guilds.

mucopolysaccharidoses (medicine)


mucopolysaccharidoses
Inherited diseases in humans resulting from inability to break down glycosaminoglycans. Hunter syndrome and Hurler syndrome, for example: result from defects in lysosomal enzymes needed to break down sulphated mucopolysaccharides.