See Also: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome(health)
lesch-nyhan syndrome(medicine)
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome(dictionary)
Lesch-Nyhan disease(medicine)
Sakati-Nyhan syndrome(medicine)
Lesch, Michael(medicine)
Nyhan(medicine)
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Syndrome(money)
Down syndrome(medicine)

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (iou)



Lesch-Nyhan syndrome noun phr. M20.
[from Michael Lesch (b. 1939) and William L. Nyhan (b. 1926), US physicians.]
Medicine. A rare hereditary syndrome which affects young boys (usu. causing early death) and is marked by compulsive self-mutilation of the head and hands, together with mental handicap and involuntary muscular movements.