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Originally Posted by fxashun  No. Why? But that is interesting... Mongolism definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms easily defined on MedTerms
Down syndrome refers to the 19th century English physician J. Langdon Down who described the condition in 1866. In great error, Langdon Down attributed the condition to a "reversion" to the "mongoloid race." He held that evolution had been reversed and there had been a sort of backslide from the superior Caucasian to the inferior Oriental race. The misnomer "mongolism" is incorrect and racist and is to be avoided.
If "caucasian" was supposed to be the more intellectually advanced race, they sure go/went to great lengths to make sure any mistake that effects all humans is blamed on other races. Old racist Caucasian medical diagnoses are very interesting. | The clinical term is Trisomy 21. When the child is conceived the two chromosomes from each parent are to split to join the other. But for different reasons one of the pairs does not split in one parent or the other. And so the 21st chromosome is made up of three instead of two...
This happens at conception. And in most cases is disjunctive or simply not related to the genes of either parent. But in some cases there is a genetic snag and those parents would always conceive a child with Trisomies.
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