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Aarskog-Scott syndrome en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Dagfinn Aarskog, a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist who first described it in 1970, and Charles I. Scott, Jr., an American medical geneticist who independently described it in 1971.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) An inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and skeletal and genital anomalies.