Word.ws English Dictionary

mucopolysaccharidoses

mucopolysaccharidoses is the plural of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Meaning of mucopolysaccharidosis

Noun

mucopolysaccharidosis (countable and uncountable, plural mucopolysaccharidoses)

  1. Any of a group of metabolic disorders caused by the absence or malfunction of lysosomal enzymes needed to break down glycosaminoglycans.
    • The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    MPS

Questions about mucopolysaccharidoses

What is mucopolysaccharidoses the plural of?
Mucopolysaccharidoses is the plural of mucopolysaccharidosis.

Words near mucopolysaccharidoses in the dictionary

  1. mucopolysaccharases
  2. mucopolysaccharidase
  3. mucopolysaccharidases
  4. mucopolysaccharide
  5. mucopolysaccharides
  6. mucopolysaccharidoses
  7. mucopolysaccharidosis
  8. mucopolysaccharidosis type I
  9. mucopolysaccharidotic
  10. mucoprotection
  11. mucoprotective

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mucopolysaccharidoses (page history and authors); mucopolysaccharidosis (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mucopolysaccharidoses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mucopolysaccharidoses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.