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noun
A rare genetic disorder most often characterized by varying degrees of deafness, minor defects in structures arising from the neural crest, and pigmentation anomalies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Narrower terms: Klein-Waardenburg syndrome, Shah-Waardenburg syndrome
History
Named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886–1979), who described the syndrome in detail in 1951.
