Tourette's syndrome
Definitions of Tourette's syndrome
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neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolaliasynonyms: Gilles de la Tourette syndrometype of:syndromea pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
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