also  Tou*rette syndrome  n :  a rare disease characterized by involuntary tics and by uncontrollable verbalizations involving esp. echolalia and coprolalia - called also Gilles de la Tourette syndrome , ourette's disease , ourette's disorder 
 
Gilles de la Tourette, Georges (1857-1904), French physician. Gilles de la Tourette first described Tourette's syndrome in 1884. He is also remembered for his clinical studies, published in 1891, in which he expounded the ideas of the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot about hysteria and hystero-epilepsy.
 
 
 
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