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mucolipidosis II (medicine) and oxymoron (iou)


mucolipidosis II (medicine)


mucolipidosis II
<biochemistry> Mucolipidosis of early onset and with severe symptoms like those in Hurler's syndrome but with normal urinary mucopolysaccharides, vacuolated lymphocytes, and inclusion bodies in cultured fibroblasts (I-cells).

The lysosomes lack hydrolases but high concentrations of lysosomal enzymes are found in the extracellular fluids such as serum, spinal fluid, and urine.

It is associated with a deficiency of N-acetylglucosaminyl-1-phosphotransferase. The gene defect responsible probably prevents the addition of the lysosome recognition marker mannose 6 phosphate) to these enzymes so that they are not directed into the lysosomes but are released.

Inheritance: autosomal recessive.

Synonym: I-cell disease, inclusion cell disease.


oxymoron (iou)



oxymoron noun. M17.
[Greek oxumoron use as noun of neut. sing. of oxumoros pointedly foolish, from oxus (see OXY-) + moros foolish (see MORON).]
A rhetorical figure of speech in which markedly contradictory terms appear in conjunction so as to emphasize the statement; gen. a contradiction in terms.
New Yorker That familiar oxymoron a weak tyrant.
oxymo'ronic adjective of or pertaining to an oxymoron; incongruous, self-contradictory: L20.
oxymo'ronically adverb E20.