dictionary help| dysmelia | medical dictionary |
Congenital abnormality characterised by missing or foreshortened limbs, sometimes with associated spine abnormalities; caused by metabolic disturbance at the time of primordial limb development.
See: amelia, phocomelia.
Origin: dys-+ G. Melos, limb
(05 Mar 2000)
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