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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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