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Tourette's syndrome

or Tourette syndrome

[ too-rets ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, especially obscenities.


Tourette's syndrome

/ t-rĕts /

  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tourette's syndrome1

After Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904), French neurologist, who described it in 1885

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