tourette's syndrome

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   neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia

   SynonymsGilles de la Tourette syndrome

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about tourette's syndrome

What does tourette's syndrome mean?

tourette's syndrome means "neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia".

What is another word for tourette's syndrome?

Close synonyms include Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tourette's syndrome a common word?

tourette's syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.