Turner's syndrome


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Turner's syndrome
noun Medicine a genetic defect in which affected women have only one X chromosome, causing developmental abnormalities and infertility.
– origin 1940s: named after the American physician Henry Hubert Turner.
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