Pendred
/ˈpɛndrɪd/Medicine
noun
Attributive, in the genitive, and with of: designating an inherited (autosomal recessive) syndrome characterized by goitre, a variable degree of impairment of thyroid hormone synthesis, and sensorineural deafness, caused by mutations in a gene encoding a protein involved in iodide transport. Also (attributive): of, relating to, or affected by this syndrome.
Origin
1960s. From the name of Vaughan Pendred, English physician, who described the condition in 1896 (Lancet 22 Aug. 532).
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