PICKWICKIAN SYNDROME Definition & Meaning

Pickwickian syndrome

Or Pickwick syndrome

noun

Pathology.

an abnormality characterized by extreme obesity accompanied by sleepiness, hypoventilation, and polycythemia.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

First recorded in 1955–60; named for Joe, a character in Dickens' The Pickwick Papers who exhibited symptoms of the disorder

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With a literary flourish, they named the condition Pickwickian syndrome after a character who falls asleep standing up in Charles Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers.

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