/too rets"/ , Pathol.
a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent involuntary movements, including multiple neck jerks and sometimes vocal tics, as grunts, barks, or words, esp. obscenities.
Also, Tourette syndrome . Also called Tourette's disease .
[ after Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857-1904), French neurologist, who described it in 1885 ]