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syndrome, hurler (medicine) and kwedini (iou)


syndrome, hurler (medicine)


syndrome, hurler


A genetic error of metabolism. There is incomplete breakdown and accumulation of a substance (a mucopolysaccharide) which is abnormally stored in the brain and Other places. This usually leads to death of the individual with hurler syndrome by their early teen years. See gargoylism.


kwedini (iou)



kwedini noun. S. Afr. E20.
[Xhosa, voc. of ikwedini boy.]
A young African (esp. Xhosa) boy.