Prader-Willi syndrome
/ˌprɑːdəˈvɪlɪ/noun
mass noun
- a rare congenital disorder characterized by mental handicap, growth abnormalities, and obsessive eating, caused especially by the absence of certain genes normally present on the copy of chromosome 15 inherited from the father普-韦二氏综合征。
词源
1960s: named after Andrea Prader (born 1919) and Heinrich Willi (born 1900)， Swiss paediatricians.