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aarskog-scott syndrome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
aarskog-s-cot-t syn-drome
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and skeletal and genital anomalies.

Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Dagfinn Aarskog, a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist who first described it in 1970, and Charles I. Scott, Jr., an American medical geneticist who independently described it in 1971.

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What does aarskog-scott syndrome mean?
An inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and skeletal and genital anomalies.
Where does aarskog-scott syndrome come from?
Named after Dagfinn Aarskog, a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist who first described it in 1970, and Charles I. Scott, Jr., an American medical geneticist who independently described it in 1971.

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