English Explanatory Dictionary

Kallmann syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A genetic condition characterised by a failure to start or complete puberty, and loss or alteration of the sense of smell.

Word forms

Kallmann syndrome

Etymology

From Kallmann + syndrome, described in a 1944 paper by Franz Josef Kallmann, a German-American geneticist.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on K Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary