■ noun Medicine a genetic defect in which affected women have only one X chromosome, causing developmental abnormalities and infertility.
Origin
1940s: named after the American physician Henry Hubert Turner .
■ noun Medicine a genetic defect in which affected women have only one X chromosome, causing developmental abnormalities and infertility.
Origin
1940s: named after the American physician Henry Hubert Turner .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004