An orphan disease is defined as a condition that affects fewer than 200,000 people nationwide. This includes diseases as familiar as cystic fibrosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, and Tourette's syndrome, and as unfamiliar as Hamburger disease, Job syndrome, and acromegaly, or gigantism..
Mozart started composing at age 3. In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer. Child prodigies are rare, and in some domains there are no child prodigies at all.n psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.
Meaning: An unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Context example: she is a chess prodigy. Hypernyms (prodigy is a kind of...): brain; brainiac; Einstein; genius; mastermind (someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of prodigy): boy wonder (an extremely talented young male person)