TAY-SACHS DISEASE

noun Etymology: Warren Tay died 1927 British physician & Bernard P. Sachs died 1944 American neurologist Date: 1907 a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism typically affecting individuals of eastern European Jewish ancestry that is characterized by the accumulation of lipids especially in nervous tissue due to a deficiency of hexosaminidase, that is inherited as a recessive autosomal trait, and that causes death in early childhood