title: [Production of meanings related to Down syndrome].
abstract: This article explores how medical and lay discourses make themselves intelligible by using figures of speech and jointly constructing a socially homogeneous idea of children with Down syndrome, based on an ethnographic study performed at the Down Syndrome Out-Patient Clinic in the Jos  Carlos Cabral de Almeida Center for Clinical Genetics, part of the Department of Genetics at the Fernandes Figueira Institute, a Federal reference hospital for maternal and child health belonging to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Gen tica, Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Funda o Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22250-020, Brasil. mhc@unisys.com.br
authors.forename: Maria Helena Cabral de Almeida
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Cardoso
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D002648:Child; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019365:Metaphor
vernacular_title: Uma produção de significados sobre a síndrome de Down.