NOUN
- a rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child
How To Use progeria In A Sentence
- I'm using the term in the sense of "segmental" progerias, conditions in which an organism expresses some but not all component of accelerated aging. Fight Aging!
- Lerner and his colleagues studied genes in actively dividing cells from young, middle-aged and old patients, and those with progeria, another rare genetic disorder characterized by accelerated aging.
- In the past few months, scientists have discovered genes connected to such devastating disorders as progeria (the rapid aging syndrome) and Lou Gehrig's Disease.
- It is impossible to predict how soon our findings will translate into treatments for children suffering from progeria.
- Before you can say Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome, our poor little unsuspecting tweeny is metamorphasizing into a pint-sized version of the aforementioned witch-hag, complete with misshapen moles and receding hairline. Demon Witch Child (1975)
- He said about one patient with progeria is born each year in the United States.
- Hutchinson-Gilford progeria was discovered in 1886 by Jonathan Hutchinson.
