Word: pigmentosum
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...passed on by heredity. On the basis of a six-year study of several hundred Utah families, the geneticists concluded that only three extremely rare kinds can be transmitted as inherited characteristics. They are multiple polyposis (which may develop into intestinal cancer), retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye), xeroderma pigmentosum (which may become skin cancer...
Allan Lindsay, a 3-year-old New Orleans boy, has a rare skin disease called xeroderma pigmentosum. The color cells in his skin are too numerous and too near the surface. When the sunlight strikes them they become greatly inflamed and cause painful ulcers. His face is the shrunken visage of an old man. The nurses at the Charity Hospital call him " Grandpop." The disease is fatal unless the sun can be kept away from the skin. A New York electrical engineer devised a protective armor to filter the sun's rays so that only those milder than...
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