Short for Tourette's syndrome, a neurological condition causing involuntary tics—sudden movements or sounds the person can't easily control.
Named after French physician Georges Gilles de la Tourette, who first described the condition systematically in 1885. The syndrome was largely forgotten until rediscovered in the 1960s.
Most people think Tourette's means saying curse words, but that happens in less than 10% of cases! The condition was named in 1885 and then completely forgotten by medicine until the 1960s when it was rediscovered—showing how medical knowledge gets lost.
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