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Brachydactyly

noun
1.
Abnormal shortness of fingers and toes.  Synonym: brachydactylia.





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... single characters in human heredity is brachydactyly, "short-fingerness," which results in a reduction in the length of the fingers by the dropping out of one joint. If one lumps together all the cases where any effect of this sort is found, it is evident that normals never transmit it to their posterity, that affected persons always do, and ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson


Words linked to "Brachydactyly" :   abnormality, abnormalcy, brachydactylic


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