[ tʊ'rɛts ]
■ noun Medicine a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary tics and vocalizations and often the compulsive utterance of obscenities.
Origin
C19: named after the French neurologist Gilles de la Tourette .
[ tʊ'rɛts ]
■ noun Medicine a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary tics and vocalizations and often the compulsive utterance of obscenities.
Origin
C19: named after the French neurologist Gilles de la Tourette .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004