WILLIAMS SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Williams syndrome mean? 

• WILLIAMS SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun WILLIAMS SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. a rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7; characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary

  Familiarity information: WILLIAMS SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLIAMS SYNDROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7; characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Williams syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)

 Context examples 

Hemizygosity of the LIMK1 gene is associated with Williams syndrome.

(LIMK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

WINAC also contains the Williams syndrome transcription factor (WSTF).

(Gene Expression Regulation by Vitamin D Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Heterozygous deletion of the FZD3 gene may contribute to the Williams syndrome phenotype.

(Frizzled 9, NCI Thesaurus)