Complex tics might include jumping, smelling objects, touching the nose, touching other people, coprolalia, echolalia, or self-harming behaviors. |
Moreover, coprolalia, or the tendency of persons to blurt out socially inappropriate or taboo expressions, is not a requirement of a Tourette's Syndrome diagnosis. |
Botulinum toxin injection into vocal cord in the treatment of malignant coprolalia associated with Tourette's syndrome. |
The swearing tic that epitomises Tourette's in the public eye is known as coprolalia. |
A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities. |
At a later stage a fairly definite tendency to coprolalia became manifest. |