Meanings
nounKallmann syndrome (uncountable)
- uncountableA genetic condition characterised by a failure to start or complete puberty, and loss or alteration of the sense of smell.
Up to 10% of people with Kallmann syndrome also have a “micropenis”; more prevalent symptoms are low or fluctuating testosterone levels.
2025 November 13, Philip Oltermann, “Did Hitler really have a ‘micropenis’? The dubious documentary analysing the dictator’s DNA”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Origin
From German Kallmann + syndrome, described in a 1944 paper by Franz Josef Kallmann, a German-American geneticist.
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