Ectrodactyly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ectrodactyly is a noun meaning (medicine) The deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.
Meaning
(medicine) The deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.
Example Sentences
EEC is the best known of the syndromic ectrodactylies, but it is extremely rare, with only 200 reported cases.
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).
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.
Word Forms
- ectrodactylies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hypodactyly, ectrosyndactyly, adactylia, cephalodactyly, brachydactyly, clawhand.
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