Etymology

Aarskog-Scott syndrome

Today it means: An inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and skeletal and genital anomalies. Full definition →

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Named after Dagfinn Aarskog, a Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist who first described it in 1970, and Charles I. Scott, Jr., an American medical geneticist who independently described it in 1971.

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