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Definition of Achondroplasia
1. Noun. An inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.
Generic synonyms: Congenital Disease, Genetic Abnormality, Genetic Defect, Genetic Disease, Genetic Disorder, Hereditary Condition, Hereditary Disease, Inherited Disease, Inherited Disorder
Derivative terms: Achondroplastic
Definition of Achondroplasia
1. Noun. (teratology) A genetic disorder, the most common form of short limb dwarfism. ¹
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Definition of Achondroplasia
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Medical Definition of Achondroplasia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Achondroplasia
Literary usage of Achondroplasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Woodwork. Manual of medicine. Oxford, 1912. 6. achondroplasia (Fetal ...
achondroplasia. Bull. Soc. Anat, de Paris, 1895, In, 772-775. Jansen (M.). ..."
2. The Diseases of children by James Frederic Goodhart (1899)
"achondroplasia is characterised chiefly by the curious shortness of the limbs.
... achondroplasia is perhaps most likely to be mistaken for cretinism, ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"If the hemorrhage is not sufficient to cause maternal death, but is considerable,
the foetus commonly dies in about an hour. A CASE OF F<ETAL achondroplasia ..."
4. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"achondroplasia.—This consists chiefly in a defective fetal develops ment of the
bones of the extremities (micromelia), with comparatively normal development ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"... any complications, and in a case reported by 1". Sachs the condition was
associated with general muscular atrophy and p^J;. - uria. VI. achondroplasia ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1909)
"achondroplasia. A case of achondroplasia in an adult is described by E. Levi,
... achondroplasia has been regarded by some as the opposite to giantism, ..."
7. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"achondroplasia is of great antiquity. Par- net draws attention to the fact that
at the British Museum there are a number of glazed earthenware images which ..."
8. Diseases of the nervous system by Alfred Gordon (1908)
"achondroplasia It is a congenital malformation characterized by a smallness of
stature ... The following three peculiarities characterize achondroplasia: ..."
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