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/kree" dooh shah", dyooh/.

See cat's cry syndrome.

[ < F: lit., cry of the cat]

cri du chat , cri du chat syndrome /krē dü shäˈ (sinˈdrōm)/

A rare, often fatal, congenital condition, so called because underdevelopment of the larynx results in a catlike cry, and caused by the absence of a particular chromosome in all the body cells