Term: tay-sachs disease: a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood
Candidate hypernym: autosomal recessive disease: a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome → 1
Candidate hypernym: carbon arc lamp: has carbon electrodes → 0
Candidate hypernym: conjugation: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms → 0
Candidate hypernym: demonstration: proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion → 0
Candidate hypernym: cull: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality → 0
Candidate hypernym: coronary care unit: a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems → 0
Candidate hypernym: hopefulness: full of hope → 0
Candidate hypernym: chorizagrotis: moths whose larvae are army cutworms → 0
Candidate hypernym: rabble: disparaging terms for the common people → 0
Candidate hypernym: serum albumin: albumin occurring in blood serum; serves to maintain the somatic pressure of the blood → 0
Candidate hypernym: retroversion: translation back into the original language → 0