Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hereditary syndrome characterized by varying degrees of deafness and facial bone defects and by variation in pigmentation of the skin, hair, or eyes.
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- noun medicine A rare
genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees ofdeafness , minordefects instructures arising from theneural crest , andpigmentation anomalies .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Petrus Johannes Waardenburg, (1886–1979), Dutch ophthalmologist.]
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Named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886–1979), who described the syndrome in detail in 1951.
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