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Patau Path.|ˈpætaʊ|
[Name of K. Patau of Germany, who with others described the condition in 1960 (Lancet 9 Apr. 790).]
Patau('s) syndrome: a syndrome due to trisomy and marked by mental retardation, seizures, cleft lip and palate, and other congenital anomalies, and usu. resulting in death soon after birth.
1964Gorlin & Pindborg Syndromes of Head & Neck xvii. 80 (heading) Trisomy 13–15 syndrome (Patau's syndrome, trisomy D1). 1971Levitan & Montagu Textbk. Human Genetics iii. 76 (caption) The shortness of the neck and low-set malformed ears are also found frequently in the Patau (D1) syndrome. 1976W. L. L. Rees Short Textbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) xxviii. 255 Patau's syndrome is due to an extra chromosome of the D group. 1978D. A. P. Evans in R. B. Scott Price's Textbk. Pract. Med. (ed. 12) iv. 354/2 Mongolism (Down's syndrome) is caused by trisomy 21 and the much rarer Edwards and Patau syndromes..by trisomy 18 and 13 respectively. |