Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

defibrillator, implantable cardiac
See 
car-
diac defibrillator, implantable.
deficiency, adenosine deaminase
See 
adeno-
sine deaminase deficiency.
deficiency, alpha-1 antitrypsin
See 
alpha-1
antitrypsin deficiency.
deficiency, ankyrin
See 
spherocytosis, heredi-
tary.
deficiency, calcium
See 
calcium deficiency.
deficiency, ceruloplasmin
See 
ceruloplasmin
deficiency.
deficiency, G6PD
Deficiency of the enzyme glu-
cose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), the most
common enzyme defect of medical importance. The
frequency of G6PD deficiency is increased in blacks
and people of Mediterranean origin (including
Italians, Greeks, Arabs, and Jews). Persons with this
enzyme deficiency can develop anemia due to the
breakup of their red blood cells when they are first
born and when they are exposed to certain drugs,
naphthalene moth balls, fava beans, fever, viral and
bacterial infections, and diabetic acidosis. Drugs
that can stimulate the anemia include the antimalar-
ials hydroxychloroquine and primaquine, salicy-
lates, dapsone, sulfonamide antibiotics, nitrofurans,
phenacetin, and some vitamin K derivatives.
deafness, ichthyosis-keratitis
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deficiency, glucocerebrosidase
See 
Gaucher
disease.
deficiency, glucose-6-phosphate dehydroge-
nase
See 
deficiency, G6PD.
deficiency, hex-A
See 
Tay-Sachs disease.