See Also: Prader-Willi syndrome(medicine)
syndrome, prader-willi(medicine)
Prader-Willi syndrome(dictionary)
steradian(medicine)
steradian(dictionary)
Prader, Andrea(medicine)
Kleine, Willi(medicine)
Willi, Heinrich(medicine)
Le Willi's Wine Bar(tourism)

Prader-Willi syndrome (iou) and steradian (medicine)


Prader-Willi syndrome (iou)



Prader-Willi syndrome noun phr. M20.
[Andrea Prader (b. 1919) and Heinrich Willi (1900-71), Swiss paediatricians.]
Medicine. A congenital disorder characterized by sexual infantilism, mental handicap, obsessive eating, and obesity.

steradian (medicine)


steradian


The unit of solid angle; the solid angle that encloses an area on the surface of a sphere equivalent to the square of the radius of the sphere.

Origin: G. Stereos, solid, + radion, radius