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TOURETTE'S SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia
Synonyms:
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; Tourette's syndrome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Tourette's syndrome" is a kind of...):
syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)