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WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME

Specialty Definition: WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME

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Rare, autosomal dominant disease with variable penetrance and several known clinical types. Characteristics may include depigmentation of the hair and skin, congenital deafness, heterochromia iridis, medial eyebrow hyperplasia, hypertrophy of the nasal root, and especially dystopia canthorum. The underlying cause may be defective development of the neural crest (neurocristopathy). Waardenburg's syndrome may be closely related to piebaldism. Klein-Waardenburg Syndrome refers to a disorder that also includes upper limb abnormalities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME

Specialty definitions using "WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME": Piebaldism. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 41 52 44 45 4E 42 55 52 47 27 53      53 59 4E 44 52 4F 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000001 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000101 01001110 01000010 01010101 01010010 01000111 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010011 01011001 01001110 01000100 01010010 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#69 &#78 &#66 &#85 &#82 &#71 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#83 &#89 &#78 &#68 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0041 0052 0044 0045 004E 0042 0055 0052 0047 0027 0053      0053 0059 004E 0044 0052 004F 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

573535523839483655524195325359483852494739

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