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progeria
1. Premature appearance of old age.
2. A fatal disease of children characterized by symptoms usually associated with senility.
3. A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (gray hair, wrinkled skin, and stooped posture) in a child.
4. Accelerated aging syndrome in which most of the characteristic stages of human senescence are compressed into less than a decade.
5. Etymology: derived from pro-, "before" plus the Greek word for "old age", geras; literally, "aged forward".
2. A fatal disease of children characterized by symptoms usually associated with senility.
3. A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (gray hair, wrinkled skin, and stooped posture) in a child.
4. Accelerated aging syndrome in which most of the characteristic stages of human senescence are compressed into less than a decade.
5. Etymology: derived from pro-, "before" plus the Greek word for "old age", geras; literally, "aged forward".
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gero-, geri-, ger-, geronto-, geront-
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pro-, por-, pur-
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