Tourette's syndrome

Tourette's syndrome
/too rets"/, Pathol.
a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, esp. obscenities.
Also, Tourette syndrome. Also called Tourette's disease.
[after Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), French neurologist, who described it in 1885]

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