Disease association ontology term - MONDO:0016295 - neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Term summary
- ID
- MONDO:0016295
- Name
- neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- Ontology or CV name
- Disease association
- Definition
- A group of inherited progressive degenerative brain diseases characterized clinically by a decline of mental and other capacities, epilepsy, and vision loss through retinal degeneration, and histopathologically by intracellular accumulation of an autofluorescent material, ceroid lipofuscin, in the neuronal cells in the brain and in the retina.
