Tourette'ssyndrome

Tou·rette's syndrome (to͝o-rĕtsʹ) or Tou·rette syndrome (-rĕtʹ) 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 laTourette (1857-1904), French physician.]

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