See Also: Coffin-Lowry syndrome(medicine)
Coffin-Lowry syndrome(health)
Coffin-Siris syndrome(medicine)
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lurch 1, verb (oh) and Coffin-Lowry syndrome (health)


lurch 1, verb (oh)



to walk or move suddenly in an uncontrolled or unsteady way
lurch forward/to/towards/into etc
::Sam hit the gas and the car lurched forward.
::He lurched to his feet.
your heart/stomach lurches
used to say that your heart or stomach seems to move suddenly because you feel shocked, frightened etc
::Virginia's heart lurched painfully in her chest.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
also lurch from crisis to crisis
to seem to have no plan and no control over what you are doing
::The industry lurches from crisis to crisis.

Coffin-Lowry syndrome (health)


An X-linked form of mental retardation in which the affected males have short stature and characteristic face, finger and skeletal abnormalities. Facial features include prominent forehead, widespread eyes, downslanting eyeslits, prominent ears, thick lips and irregular/missing teeth. The hands are large and soft with lax skin and tapering fingers. Skeletal changes include kyphosis/scoliosis and pectus carinatum (pigeon breast) or pectus excavatum (caved-in chest). The syndrome is due to mutation of the gene on the X chromosome that encodes RSK2, a growth-factor regulated protein kinase.