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phokomelia

phokomelia is the alternative form of phocomelia.

Meaning of phocomelia

Noun

phocomelia (usually uncountable, plural phocomelias)

  1. (usually) A congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet.

Questions about phokomelia

What is phokomelia the alternative form of?
Phokomelia is the alternative form of phocomelia.

Words near phokomelia in the dictionary

  1. phogrin
  2. phoh
  3. Phokian
  4. Phokians
  5. Phokis
  6. phokomelia
  7. phokomelic
  8. pholad
  9. pholades
  10. pholadid
  11. pholadids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phokomelia (page history and authors); phocomelia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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