Definition of Achondroplastic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to achondroplasia.

Partainyms: Achondroplasia
Derivative terms: Achondroplasia

Definition of Achondroplastic

1. Adjective. of, related to, or suffering from achondroplasia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Achondroplastic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Achondroplastic

1. Relating to or characterised by achondroplasia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Achondroplastic

acholeplasma laidlawii
acholeplasmataceae
acholia
acholias
acholic
acholous
acholuria
acholuric
acholuric jaundice
achondrite
achondrites
achondritic
achondroplasia
achondroplasias
achondroplastic (current term)
achondroplastic dwarfism
achondroplasty
achoo
achoo syndrome
achor
achordal
achordate
achoresis
achrestic
achrestic anaemia
achroacyte
achroacytosis
achrodextrin
achromacyte

Literary usage of Achondroplastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"The characteristic symptoms of achondroplastic individuals are the following: (1) Short stature of ... Photograph of achondroplastic Boy, Aged 12 Years. ..."

2. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"... called achondroplastic nanism, in which, although the bust is developed very nearly within normal limits, the limbs on the contrary are arrested in ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1906)
"Her father, aged fifty-three years, was also an achondroplastic dwarf, ... The author remarks on the peculiar fecundity of achondroplastic dwarfs as opposed ..."

4. The Laws of Life: Principles of Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics. A Popular by William Marion Goldsmith (1922)
"An achondroplastic Dwarf 205 67. An achondroplastic Dwarf Can Perform Unusual Feats . . . 207 68. Varieties of Cabbage Supposed to Have Arisen as Mutants ..."

5. Medical Electrology and Radiology (1906)
"... Baldwin has published a case of an achondroplastic woman upon whom he ... simple fact that the head of the achondroplastic fretus is abnormally large. ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"In the first group are contained the rachitic and achondroplastic dwarves. These cases produce normal children. In the second group belong ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1902)
"In the first group are contained the rachitic and achondroplastic dwarves. These cases produce normal children. In the second group belong ..."

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