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Named for neurologists William G. Lennox (Boston, USA) and Henri Gastaut (Marseille, France).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Today it means: A difficult-to-treat form of childhood-onset epilepsy, characterized by frequent seizures of different types and often accompanied by mental retardation and psychological and behavioural problems. Full definition →