Crookshanks'theories were refuted entirely by the trisomy 21 discoveries of 1959 that defined the genetic defect causing Down Syndrome, although the term " Mongolism " Crookshanks'contributions to its stigmatization took several decades to fade away entirely.
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They founded the Inner Mongolian Army in 1929 but the Inner Mongolian Army disbanded after ending World War II . The Japanese Empire supported Pan-Mongolism since the 1910s but there have never been active relations between Mongolia and Imperial Japan due to Russian resistance.
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Down syndrome ( after J . L . H . Down, 1828-96, Brit . physician . ) _ A congenital condition characterized by abnormal chromosomes, mental deficiency, a broad face, slanting eyes, a short fifth finger, etc . Mongolism.
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Due to his perception that children with Down syndrome shared facial similarities with the populations that Johann Friedrich Blumenbach described as the " Mongolian race ", Down used the term " mongoloid " . and the term " mongolism " was used by psychiatrist and geneticist Lionel Penrose as late as 1961.
