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familial splenic anaemia (medicine) and billiards (iou)


familial splenic anaemia (medicine)


familial splenic anaemia -->
Gaucher's disease
<disease> A chronic congenital disease of lipid metabolism caused by a deficiency of the beta-glucocerebrosidase enzyme. The defect is most common in Ashkenazi Jews. Clinical features are hepatosplenomegaly (enlargement of liver and spleen) and in severe early onset forms of the disease, with neurological dysfunction.

Inheritance: autosomal recessive.


billiards (iou)



billiards noun (orig. pl., but soon treated as sing.). Sing. form used only in comb. L16.
[French billard the game and the cue, from bille: see BILLET noun2, -ARD.]
A game played with cues and balls on an oblong smooth cloth-covered table: in the standard form played with three balls on a table with six pockets at the corners and sides into which the balls are struck.
bar billiards: see BAR noun1. pocket billiards: see POCKET noun & adjective.
Comb.: billiard-ball, billiard-cloth, billiard-cue, billiard-hall, billiard-player, billiard-room, billiard-table, etc.; billiard-marker a person or apparatus whose function is to record the score in billiards.
? Cf. POOL noun2, SNOOKER noun2.
billiardist noun a person who plays billiards M19.