Kallmann's syndrome 1

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Kallmann's syndrome¹

Etymology: Franz J. Kallmann, American psychiatrist, 1897-1965

a condition characterized by the absence of the sense of smell and longer-than-average limbs. It is caused by agenesis of the olfactory bulbs and secondary hypogonadism related to a decrease of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (interstitial cell-stimulating hormone).

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