WILLIAMS SYNDROME

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Meaning:

A rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7; characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Williams syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)

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