Wymmin
An alternate spelling of wimmin.
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- Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes
(1886-1979) Dutch ophthalmologist and medical geneticist who described the condition now known as Waardenburg syndrome. The syndrome is characterized by wide bridge of the nose owing to lateral displacement of the inner canthus of each eye, pigmentary disturbance (frontal white blaze of hair, eyes of different color, white eye lashes, leukoderma), and cochlear deafness. Waardenburg […]
- Waardenburg syndrome
A genetic disorder that causes deafness, white forelock (a frontal white blaze of hair), a difference of color between the iris of one eye and the other (heterochromia iridis), white eye lashes, and wide-set inner corners of the eyes. The deafness is typically congenital (present at birth), bilateral, profound sensorineural (nerve) deafness. The severity of […]
- X inactivation
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A coagulation factor, a substance in blood essential to the normal clotting process. Production of factor X takes place in the liver and requires vitamin K. The gene for factor X is located on chromosome 13 and is in band 13q34. The “X” in factor X is the Roman numeral “ten.” (All numbered coagulation factors […]