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MLD

MLD is the initialism of metachromatic leukodystrophy.

MLD is the initialism of mid-lithospheric discontinuity.

MLD is the initialism of manual lymphatic drainage.

Meaning of metachromatic leukodystrophy

Noun

metachromatic leukodystrophy (plural metachromatic leukodystrophies)

  1. Any of a range of genetic metabolic disorders caused by defective genes for arylsulfatase enzymes,
    • Metachromatic leukodystrophy is an autosomal recessive disorder that is usually caused by mutations in the arylsulfatase A (ARSA) gene on chromosome 22q13.31.[…]Several molecular forms of arylsulfatase A exist and may account for the different phenotypes of metachromatic leukodystrophy.2010, Michael C. Brodsky, Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology, Springer, page 478
  2. especially, a deficiency in the enzyme ARSA (arylsulfatase A).

Forms of MLD

pluralMLDs

Questions about MLD

What is MLD the initialism of?
MLD is the initialism of metachromatic leukodystrophy.

Words near MLD in the dictionary

  1. MLC
  2. MLCC
  3. MLCCs
  4. MLCIN
  5. MLCs
  6. MLD
  7. mldg.
  8. mldgs.
  9. MLDs
  10. MLE
  11. mlecch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: MLD (page history and authors); metachromatic leukodystrophy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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