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lipofuscinosis (medicine)


lipofuscinosis
Abnormal storage of any one of a group of fatty pigments.

Ceroid lipofuscinosis, cerebral sphingolipidosis, late juvenile type.

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a group of diseases characterised by accumulation of abnormal pigments in tissue (previously classified as cerebral sphingolipidoses). Major subtypes include chronic juvenile form (Batten disease), slowly progressive behaviour and visual symptoms, autosomal recessive inheritance; acute, late infantile form (Bielschowsky disease); autosomal recessive inheritance; chronic adult form (Kufs disease), variable inheritance; acute infantile form (Santavuori-Haltia disease), fulminating motor and mental deterioration often associated with myoclonic seizures. Minor forms have also been described.


huddle (iou)



huddle verb. L16.
[Perh. of Low German origin and ult. from Germanic base of HIDE verb1: cf. HUD.]
I. verb trans.
Hide; hush up. L16-E19.
Heap up, mix, or crowd together closely or in a disordered manner; push in a disorderly mass into, out of, through, etc.; put (clothes) on or on hurriedly or untidily. L16.
Sir W. Scott The Friar..had huddled a friar's frock over his green cassock. R. L. Stevenson The bar-keeper led us upstairs to a room..with..chairs huddled into one corner. W. S. Churchill They were huddling and clumping themselves together for mutual protection.
b. Hunch, coil, (oneself) over, up, etc. M18.
Conan Doyle I found him huddled up in his arm-chair with updrawn knees.
Hurry (over, through); hurry the completion of, botch up through haste. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
Hug. Now dial. M17.
II. verb intrans.
Gather or crowd closely or in disorder; hunch up; nestle closely in a hunched position. Freq. foll. by together, up. L16.
H. Roth They huddled together as if for protection. P. L. Fermor Villages that huddled round the shingle roofs of churches. B. Chatwin After dark, she would huddle over the fire.
Hurry in disorder or confusion. M17-M18.
huddlement noun huddled condition, huddling M19.
huddler noun (rare) E17.