CATCH 22 syndrome
English
Etymology
The salient features of DiGeorge syndrome can be summarised by the mnemonic CATCH 22:
- Cardiac defects,
- Abnormal facies,
- Thymic aplasia,
- Cleft palate,
- Hypocalcemia/hypoparathyroidism, and
- 22q11.2DS.
Noun
CATCH 22 syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural CATCH 22 syndromes)
- (medicine, informal) DiGeorge syndrome.
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