Medical Dictionary
orphan disease
noun or·phan disease \ˈȯr-fən-\
Medical Definition of ORPHAN DISEASE
: a disease which affects a relatively small number of individuals and for which no drug therapy has been developed because the small market would make the research and the drug unprofitable
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