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- noun medicine A
neurogenetic disorder characterized byintellectual anddevelopmental delay, sleep disturbance,seizures , jerky movements (especially hand-flapping), and frequentlaughter or smiling.
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After Dr. Harry Angelman, who first described it in 1965.
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