Lesch-Ny|han syndrome

Lesch-Ny|han syndrome
Lesch-Ny|han syndrome «LEHSH NY huhn»,
a genetic disorder of male children characterized by mental retardation and involuntary writhing motions.
[< M. Lesch, born 1939, and W. L. Nyhan, born 1926, American pediatricians, who first described it in 1964]

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