单词 | Werner's syndrome |
释义 | Werner's syndrome/ˈwəːnəz / /ˈvɛː-/noun [mass noun] Medicine A rare hereditary syndrome causing rapid premature ageing, susceptibility to cancer, and other disorders.Dr Faragher and his colleagues have been searching for clues in people with Werner's syndrome, a disease in which ageing is speeded up by a faulty gene, causing sufferers to die in their forties with the bodies of centenarians....
Origin1930s: named after Carl O. Werner (1879–1936), German physician. |
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