Gilles de la Tourette \zhēl-də-lä-tür-et\ , Georges (1857–1904), French physician. Gilles de la Tourette first described Tourette's syndrome in 1884. He is also remembered for his clinical studies, published in 1891, in which he expounded the ideas of the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot about hysteria and hystero-epilepsy.
Medical Dictionary
Tourette's syndrome
noun
Medical Definition of TOURETTE'S SYNDROME
: a familial neuropsychiatric disorder of variable expression that is characterized by multiple recurrent involuntary tics involving body movements (as eye blinks, grimaces, or knee bends) and vocalizations (as grunts, snorts, or utterance of inappropriate words), that often has one or more associated behavioral or psychiatric conditions (as attention deficit disorder or obsessive-compulsive behavior), that is more common in males than females, and that usually has an onset in childhood and often stabilizes or ameliorates in adulthood—abbreviation TS; called also Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, Tourette's disease, Tourette's disorder
Biographical Note for TOURETTE'S SYNDROME
Variants of TOURETTE'S SYNDROME
Tourette's syndrome or Tourette syndrome
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