Menkes disease
Meaning
Noun
- An X-linked recessive disorder that affects copper levels in the body and produces distinctive colourless, breakable hair.
Related
Similar words
- copper transport disease
- kinky hair disease
- Menkes kinky hair syndrome
- Menkes syndrome
- steely hair disease
Origin
- Originally described by John Hans Menkes (1928–2008) et al. in 1962.
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