touretten.1
/tʊəˈrɛt/ A little or short tour; an excursion.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > tour > types of
the tour1642
grand tour1678
circular tour1860
swing1860
tourette1881
voyage of discovery1890
roundabout1894
Cook's tour1902
conducted1907
conducted tour1907
book tour1939
tour d'horizon1952
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [noun] > type of holiday or tour
grand tour1678
villegiature1740
villeggiatura1742
honeymoon1791
wedding visit1794
honeymooning1832
wedding tour1847
wedding trip1855
second honeymoon1872
tourette1881
weekending1886
package holiday1959
fly-cruise1968
ski pack1969
ecotour1973
package1977
1881 A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life (1900) V. xxii. 332 I made a tourette into Norfolk.
1906 Bumpus Cathedrals Eng. & Wales II. 197 Charming tourettes may be made in one direction to Rushden..in another to Chelveston.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
Touretten.2
/tʊəˈrɛt/ Pathology.
Used attributively and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also elliptical as Tourette('s).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [adjective] > other nervous disorders
Tourette1899
ciguatoxic1965
Meige1972
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > other nervous disorders
ciguatera1862
gangliopathy1868
hepato-lenticular degeneration1922
ganglionopathy1952
leukodystrophy1960
smon1971
Tourette('s) syndrome1973
1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 13 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).]
1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic.
1940 S. A. K. Wilson Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays.
1973 Psychosomatic Med. 35 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered.
1978 A. K. Shapiro et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient.
1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common.
1996 Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Review section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Derivatives
Touˈrettism n. behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.
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Tourettism1981
1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's.
1988 Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. 1 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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