Meromelia

Meromelia is a birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot. It results in a shrunken and deformed extremity. [1]

Cause

Such defects are mainly the results of genetic disorders, but some teratogenic (or environmental) factors have been identified, such as the use of thalidomide from 1957 to 1962 for morning sickness (NVP).[1]

Diagnosis

Meromelia a birth defect characterization by the lacking of a part, but all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot.

Treatment

Etymology

Gk, meros ("part") + melia ("limb")

gollark: `build` just prints out a bunch of metadata loaded from the `potatOS` API and registry.
gollark: No, I'm not doing that, that would be horrible and no.
gollark: PotatOS Tau uses compression for that, PotatOS Hypercycle will probably do roughly what you said.
gollark: I *was* going to do that for `/bin`, except for the last bit.
gollark: Hmm, it seems that `os.date` can, neat.

See also

References
  1. Sadler, T. W. Langman's Medical Embryology Eleventh Ed.. LWW, p. 140.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.