Marfan syndrome (also called Marfan's syndrome) is a genetic disorder of connective tissue. It has a variable clinical presentation, ranging from mild to severe systemic disease. The most serious manifestations involve defects of the heart valves and aorta, which may lead to early death if not properly managed.
noun. 1  a big deal. 2  See more words with the same meaning: exclamations (list of) . 3  See more words with the same meaning: unimportant, useless.
Unimportant characters are often flat-the writer does not provide enough information for us to understand them; we only get to see one side of the character's personality. In Finding Nemo, Bruce the shark is a flat character-he is not around very long, and we don't really understand why he does what he does.hese are usually minor, flat characters. Dynamic character a character whose personality changes during the course of the story; a character who grows, emotionally, due to or learns from the actions or events in the story.