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Definition of Pendred in English: Pendrednoun ˈpɛndrɪd Medicine Attributive, in the genitive, and with of: designating an inherited (autosomal recessive) syndrome characterized by goitre, a variable degree of impairment of thyroid hormone synthesis, and sensorineural deafness, caused by mutations in a gene encoding a protein involved in iodide transport. Also (attributive): of, relating to, or affected by this syndrome.
Origin 1960s. From the name of Vaughan Pendred, English physician, who described the condition in 1896 (Lancet 22 Aug. 532). Definition of Pendred in US English: Pendrednounˈpɛndrɪd Medicine Attributive, in the genitive, and with of: designating an inherited (autosomal recessive) syndrome characterized by goitre, a variable degree of impairment of thyroid hormone synthesis, and sensorineural deafness, caused by mutations in a gene encoding a protein involved in iodide transport. Also (attributive): of, relating to, or affected by this syndrome.
Origin 1960s. From the name of Vaughan Pendred, English physician, who described the condition in 1896 ( Lancet 22 Aug. 532). |