English Explanatory Dictionary

West syndrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The triad of infantile epileptic spasms, hypsarrhythmia, and developmental regression.

Word forms

West syndrome

Etymology

Named after the English physician, William James West (1793–1848), who described it.

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