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dys- + -genesis
dysgenesis (plural dysgeneses)
- (medicine) Defective development
1989, Raymond Adams, Maurice Victor, Principles of Neurology[1], →ISBN, page 980:Down Syndrome (Mongolism) Described first in 1866 by Langdon Down, this is the best known of the chromosomal dysgeneses.
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