dictionary help| hypomorph | medical dictionary |
1. A person whose standing height is short in proportion to the sitting height, owing to shortness of the limbs.
Compare: hypermorph, endomorph.
2. A mutant gene that causes a partial decrease in the activity controlled by the gene.
Compare: hypermorph.
Origin: hypo-+ G. Morphe, form
(05 Mar 2000)
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