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ectrodactyly

ectrodactyly noun: the deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.

Noun

ectrodactyly (countable and uncountable, plural ectrodactylies)

  1. The deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.
    • Ectrodactyly with or without more severe limb reduction defects may be seen in a variety of different syndromes (3,8,12,23,24,40-42,46,54,63,75).1995, Robert J. Gorlin; Helga V. Toriello; M. Michael Cohen, Jr., Hereditary Hearing Loss and Its Syndromes, Oxford University Press, page 184
    • Furthermore, although the peculiar craniofacial lesion observed in mutant mice is never observed in patients of SHFM1, an etiological association has been established between SHFM1 and syndromic ectrodactylies in which cleft lip and/or palate, hearing loss, and genito-urinary anomalies are present.2003, Giorgio R. Merlo, Annemiek Beverdam, Giovanni Levi, “Dix genes in craniofacial and limb morphogenesis”, in Thomas Lufkin, editor, Murine Homeobox Gene Control of Embryonic Patterning and...

Forms of ectrodactyly

pluralectrodactylies

Questions about ectrodactyly

What does ectrodactyly mean?
Ectrodactyly means the deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.
What part of speech is ectrodactyly?
Ectrodactyly is a noun.
What is the plural of ectrodactyly?
The plural of ectrodactyly is ectrodactylies.

Words near ectrodactyly in the dictionary

  1. ectrichodiines
  2. ectrodactylia
  3. ectrodactylies
  4. ectrodactylism
  5. ectrodactylous
  6. ectrodactyly
  7. ectromelia
  8. ectromelian
  9. ectromelians
  10. ectromelias
  11. ectromelic

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