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Klip·pel-Feil syndrome

n :  congenital fusion of the cervical vertebrae resulting in a short and relatively immobile neck
 
Klippel, Maurice (1858-1942),
and Feil, André (b 1884), French neurologists. Klippel and Feil described the Klippel-Feil syndrome in 1912.
 
 

 
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