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trisomy

The state of a cell having 3 copies of a chromosome, instead of 2. For example, trisomy 21 or 3 copies of chromosome 21 instead of 2 as found in patients with Down's syndrome.

Related

disomy monsomy

Specific

trisomy X; triple X syndrome trisomy-12 trisomy-7 trisomy-8 trisomy-9

General

aneuploidy

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.