Waardenburg syndrome

English

Etymology

Named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886–1979), who described the syndrome in detail in 1951.

Noun

Waardenburg syndrome

1. (medicine) A rare genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees of deafness, minor defects in structures arising from the neural crest, and pigmentation anomalies.

   Hyponyms: Klein-Waardenburg syndrome, Shah-Waardenburg syndrome

Synonyms

• There are many synonyms; see the Wikipedia article for a list.