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progeria::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | abnormalcy, abnormality |
Examples of progeria
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Dr. Stewart and colleagues had previously developed a mouse model for progeria.
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After two years, children with progeria gain an average of only a pound a year.
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Progeria is rare, and for the families, hope is still the emotion fueled by cash.
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Nighbor learned that her daughter has a rare genetic condition known as progeria.
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Progeria is a disease that mimics normal aging but occurs at a very fast pace.
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Kaylee Halko, who has progeria, is only three feet tall and weighs 24 pounds.
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In 2008, European clinical trials began on twelve children suffering from progeria.
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Sam had progeria, a rare genetic condition that resembles the ageing process sped up.
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Like progeria patients, mice in the study showed signs of premature aging.
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- A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child
- Progeria (pronunciation: /prou028Au02C8du0292u026Au0259riu0259/) (Hutchinsonu2013Gilford progeria syndrome, HGPS, progeria syndrome) is an extremely rare genetic disorder in which symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at a very early age. Progeria is one of several progeroid syndromes...
- Genetic disease resembling accelerated aging which typically affects children. Also called Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome.
- A rare genetic condition where physical aspects of aging are extremely accelerated
- A group of inherited conditions resembling accelerated aging. Victims generally die before their teens of strokes or heart attack, looking like little old men or women, bald, bent over, with wrinkled faces, and so on.
- A disease that causes premature aging.
