Down's syndrome
Meaning
Proper Noun
- Condition caused by a chromosomal deficiency, whereby the patients bear a certain resemblance to the Mongoloid race, such as a small head and tilted eyelids.
Related
Similar words
- Down's, Down’s
- trisomy 21
Origin
- Named after John L.H. Langdon-Down (1828–1896), an English physician who described it in the late 1800s. The term was first used in 1961.
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