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Prader–Willi, n. Path.|ˌprɑːdə(r)ˈvɪlɪ|
[The names of Andrea Prader (b. 1919) and Heinrich Willi (b. 1900), Swiss paediatricians, who with Alexis Lebhardt described the syndrome in Schweiz. Med. Wochenschr. (1956) LXXXVI. 1260/2.]
Prader-Willi syndrome, a congenital disorder caused by a chromosomal defect and characterized by sexual infantilism, mental handicap, obsessive eating, and obesity.
1964Acta Pædiatrica LIII. 75/2 It is true that mentally deficient children are often short, but children with the Prader-Willi syndrome grow disproportionately as well. 1972Jrnl. Pediatrics LXXI. 290/2 These findings indicate that diabetes mellitus is not necessarily a consistent feature of the Prader-Willi syndrome, even in the adult, and that when present at any age it is usually mild. 1988Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 35) i. 10/1 People suffering from the Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare brain disorder which makes them constantly crave for food, have been known to get so fat that they die from asphyxiation. 1992Newsweek (Canad. ed.) 2 Nov. 77/3 If the father's chromosome 15 is missing some DNA..his child will have the rare Prader-Willi syndrome. |