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Tourette, n.2 Path.|tʊəˈrɛt|
[The name of G. Gilles de la Tourette (1857–1904), French neurologist.]
Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also ellipt. as Tourette('s).
[1886Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIII. 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).] 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic. 1940S. A. K. Wilson Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays. 1973Psychosomatic Med. XXXV. 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered. 1978A. K. Shapiro et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient. 1981London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common. 1996Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Rev. section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Hence Touˈrettism n., behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.
1981London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1, I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's. 1988Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. I. 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal. |