Tay-Sachs disease
/teɪˈsæks/noun
mass noun
- an inherited metabolic disorder in which certain lipids accumulate in the brain, causing spasticity and death in childhood泰-萨二氏病。
词源
early 20th cent.: from the names of Warren Tay （1843-1827）, English ophthalmologist, and Bernard Sachs （1858-1944）, American neurologist, who described it in 1881 and 1887 respectively.