GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gilles de la Tourette syndrome mean? 

• GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia

  Familiarity information: GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; Tourette's syndrome

Hypernyms ("Gilles de la Tourette syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)