Kallmann, Franz Josef (1897–1965), American geneticist and psychiatrist. Kallmann held positions as a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and as chief psychiatrist at a state psychiatric institute in New York. He was best known for demonstrating how hereditary factors could play a major role in the development of psychoses. In 1952 he produced an important study that investigated the role of heredity in determining homosexuality.
Medical Dictionary
Kallmann syndrome
noun Kall·mann syndrome \ˈkȯl-mən-\
Medical Definition of KALLMANN SYNDROME
: a hereditary condition marked by hypogonadism caused by a deficiency of gonadotropins and anosmia caused by failure of the olfactory lobes to develop
Biographical Note for KALLMANN SYNDROME
Variants of KALLMANN SYNDROME
Kall·mann syndrome or Kall·mann's syndrome \-mən(z)-\
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