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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation;
[syn: mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Down syndrome \Down" syn`drome\, Down's syndrome \Down's" syn`drome\, n. (Med.) A congenital disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21 in some or all cells. It causes a variable number and degree of abnormalities, including retarded growth, mental retardation, a short nose, prominent epicanthic folds on the eyelids, a protruding lower lip, and other physical features having varying degrees of deviation from the normal. Called also mongolism, trisomy-21 and trisomy 21 syndrome. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mongolism n 1: a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation [syn: mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "mongolism": Christmas disease, Hartnup disease, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, achromatic vision, albinism, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, color blindness, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, dichromatic vision, dysautonomia, half-wittedness, hemophilia, ichthyosis, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, mucoviscidosis, muscular dystrophy, pancreatic fibrosis, profound idiocy, retardation, retardment, sickle-cell anemia, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality, thalassemia