TOURETTE'S SYNDROME

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; Tourette's syndrome

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Tourette's syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)

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