Turner's syndrome
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DEFINITION:
- Turner's syndrome
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A disorder of gonadal differentiation in patients phenotypically female, marked by short stature, undifferentiated (streak) gonads, and variable abnormalities that may include webbing of the neck, low posterior hair line, cubitus valgus, and cardiac defects; it is typically associated with absence of the second sex chromosome (XO or 45,X) although structural abnormality of one X chromosome or mosaicism (e.g., XX/XX or X/XXX) may also be responsible. Called also gonadal dysgenesis .
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