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Prader-Willi syndrome
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Prader-Willi syndrome [ˌprɑːdəˈvɪlɪ]
n
(Medicine) a congenital condition characterized by obsessive eating, obesity, mental retardation, and small genitalia
[after Andreas Prader (born 1919) and H. Willi (born 1920), Swiss paediatricians]


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The rare eating disorder Prader Willi Syndrome, (PWS), causes sufferers to eat continuously.
Her mother was prosecuted for child abuse, but it is believed that Prader Willi Syndrome drove her daughter's insatiable craving for food.
 
 
 
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