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Werner’s syndrome

Wer·ner's syn·drome [ wáirnərz sìn drōm ]


noun 
Definition:
 
premature aging: a severe genetic disorder in which all the signs of degenerative advanced age appear early in life

[Mid-20th century. After the German physician Carl Otto Werner (1879-1936), who first described it]
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