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Tourette's syndrome

  [too-rets]
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–noun Pathology.
a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, esp. obscenities.
Also, Tourette syndrome.
Also called Tourette's disease.

Origin:
after Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904), French neurologist, who described it in 1885
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Tou·rette's syndrome   (tŏŏ-rěts')   
n.  A severe neurological disorder characterized by multiple facial and other body tics, usually beginning in childhood or adolescence and often accompanied by grunts and compulsive utterances, as of interjections and obscenities. Also called Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.

[After Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), French physician.]
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Tourette's syndrome (t-rěts') or Tourette syndrome   (t-rěts')
A neurological disorder characterized by multiple facial and other body tics, usually beginning in childhood or adolescence and often accompanied by grunts and compulsive utterances, such as interjections or obscenities. It is named for its discoverer, French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904).
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