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Definition of Progeria
1. Noun. A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child.
Definition of Progeria
1. Noun. An extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age. ¹
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Definition of Progeria
1. premature aging [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Progeria
Literary usage of Progeria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1910)
"progeria. ./Etiology. This condition is doubtless due to some disease of the
pituitary gland. Symptoms. These are incomplete development, premature old age. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"progeria is a remarkable condition in which, with infantilism, as shown in stature
and proportion, ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"progeria is a remarkable condition in which, with infantilism, as shown in stature
and proportion, ..."
4. Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of William Osler by William Osler (1921)
"A rare, but still progeria in more extraordinary, bodily state is that of progeria,
the teacher. in which, as though touched with the wand of some malign ..."
5. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1912)
"progeria.—Age 15. ... progeria (Fig. 70) is primary, spontaneous infantilism
mingled with premature senility ..."
6. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"progeria covers cases of infantilism associated with premature senility, outward
and structural. PANCREATIC INFANTILISM.—This condition, characterized by a ..."
7. Endocrine Glands and the Sympathetic System by Pierre Lereboullet (1922)
"progeria SENILE DWARFISM This syndrome can be placed next to the preceding ones,
... Hastings Gilford in 1896 described two cases under the name of progeria ..."