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单词 progeria
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progerian.

Brit. /prəʊˈdʒɪərɪə/, U.S. /proʊˈdʒɪriə/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek προγήρως , -ia suffix1.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek προγήρως prematurely old ( < ancient Greek προ- pro- prefix2 + γῆρας old age: see geriatrics n.) + -ia suffix1.
Medicine.
1. More fully Hutchinson–Gilford progeria, Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome. A rare syndrome affecting children, beginning in the first year of life and characterized by growth retardation and signs usually associated with ageing, such as wrinkling of the skin, alopecia, severe atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis, and typically resulting in death from cardiovascular disease before the age of twenty.
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progeria1904
1904 H. Gilford in Practitioner Aug. 210 The name progeria, for which I am indebted to Mr. James Rhoades and Professor Arthur Sidgwick, is not only a far better word [than micromegaly], but is a true description of the distinguishing features of the two cases.
1927 Times (Weekly ed.) 28 Apr. 475/2 Cases of premature senility in children (goblins) described as progeria, the persistence in an adult (ateleioses) of child characters (elves).
1968 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. Radium Ther. Nucl. Med. 103 173 (title) Progeria. Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome.
1987 D. Hall Seasons at Eagle Pond iv. 72 It is not earned and appropriate aging but disease, acid, blight..—mocking the splendor of Autumn as progeria, wretched aging-disease of children, mocks residents of the nursing home.
1993 Mech. Ageing Dev. 70 163 Elastin and type IV collagen production are markedly elevated in fibroblasts derived from the skin of patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria.
2003 Jewish Telegr. (Scotl. ed.) 31 Dec. (World Scene) p. v The boys are victims of Huntington–Gilford Progeria syndrome—an extremely rare genetic disease that accelerates the ageing process to about seven times the normal rate.
2. Chiefly with distinguishing word or words: any of several other syndromes characterized by apparent premature ageing in children or adults. Cf. Werner's syndrome at Werner n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > congenital or hereditary syndromes > [noun]
amyelia1865
amelia1872
congenital myotonia1886
myotonia congenita1887
Thomsen's disease1890
von Recklinghausen's disease1899
pseudoxanthoma1900
Werdnig–Hoffmann1903
myotonia atrophica1908
Fröhlich1909
Milroy's disease1909
Lindau disease1928
Steinert's disease1932
von Hippel–Lindau disease1932
Werner's syndrome1934
Sturge–Weber syndrome1935
gargoylism1936
Morgagni's syndrome1936
Hurler's disease1937
von Willebrand1941
Turner1942
autism1944
hypophosphatasia1948
Klinefelter1950
mucopolysaccharidosis1952
progeria1957
Pendred1960
Down's syndrome1961
Patau's syndrome1961
Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome1962
cri du chat syndrome1964
Prader–Willi syndrome1964
Noonan syndrome1965
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome1966
Wernicke–Korsakoff1966
Down1967
mannosidosis1969
mucolipidosis1970
Asperger's syndrome1971
Angelman syndrome1972
adrenoleukodystrophy1973
SCID1973
severe combined immune deficiency1973
Miller–Dieker syndrome1980
Asperger1988
Asperger's disorder1994
1957 Ulster Med. Jrnl. 26 65 (title) Werner's syndrome (progeria in the adult).
1985 Adv. Exper. Med. Biol. 190 229 (title) A comparison of adult and childhood progerias: Werner syndrome and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
1991 Mutat. Res. 256 177 Cells from patients with Werner's syndrome (progeria of the adult), on the other hand, do not suffer from a defect in their antioxidant defence system.
1993 Nature 1 Apr. 411/2 There is speculation that tithonin might reverse the symptoms of Zachary's progeria.
2004 Internat. Jrnl. Biochem. & Cell Biol. 37 947 None of the known progerias represents true precocious ageing.

Derivatives

proˈgerian n. and adj. rare (a) n. a person suffering from progeria; (b) adj. = progeric adj.
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progerian1913
1913 Lancet 1 Feb. 305/1 Progerians pass from a delayed childhood into a premature old age.
1913 Lancet 1 Feb. 306/1 The total length of the progerian face from nasion to chin is only 84 mm.
1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 14 Aug. 8 There is no medical treatment program for progerians.
proˈgeric adj. of the nature of, affected by, or characteristic of progeria.
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progeric1933
1933 R. W. B. Ellis tr. E. Apert Infantilism vii. 73 (caption) Mould of the upper and lower jaws in the same progeric patient [Fr. le sujet atteint de progeria] as in figs. 11 and 12.
1976 Nature 22 Apr. 713/1 With factor VII-deficient plasma, both normal and progeric cells showed a markedly prolonged clotting time.
1993 Psychiatry Res. 50 93 The metabolic pattern was similar to that seen in normal aging..and is therefore consistent with the classification of myotonic dystrophy as a progeric disease.
proˈgeroid adj. resembling progeria.
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1955 Pediatrics 15 413 (title) Progeroid syndrome: report of a case of pseudo-senilism.
1981 Jrnl. Cell Physiol. 107 255 Myotonic dystrophy..has been suggested to be a segmental progeroid syndrome in man, as this syndrome has some clinical manifestations of premature aging.
1997 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 215 145 The Ehlers-Danlos progeroid variant offers insight into the function and regulation of the proteoglycan decorin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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