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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A genetic disorder characterized by short stature, mental retardation, involuntary craving for food with subsequent obesity, behavior and learning problems, and incomplete sexual development.
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- noun A particular
human disease , caused by deletion of part ofchromosome 15, and manifested bymental retardation and other problems.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Andrea Prader, (1919–2001), Swiss pediatrician and endocrinologist, and Heinrich Willi, (1900–1971), Swiss pediatrician.]
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