achondroplasia

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A condition that causes very short height and short arms and legs from birth

noun
/ˌeɪkənˈdroʊpleɪziə/

Specialized

: acondroplasia

Only one patient, a 28-year-old woman with achondroplasia, had no laryngeal or voice abnormality.
patient with achondroplasia

So take something like Down syndrome or achondroplasia.

Examples

She has a form of dwarfism called Achondroplasia and won't grow any taller than her current height.

Blog text (18)
This suggests a trend toward higher-pitched voices in syndromes with prenatal growth retardation, although the finding is equivocal among the patients with achondroplasia.

Academic text (1995)
Both of these patients were in the achondroplasia subgroup.

Academic text (1995)
However, achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant disorder, and one would expect to see other children affected in the family.

Academic text (2010)
Six had achondroplasia.

Academic text (1995)
Only one subject, with achondroplasia, had no evidence of vocal laryngeal abnormalities.

Academic text (1995)
One 27-year-old man with achondroplasia was a partially trained avocational singer.

Academic text (1995)
She is suffering from achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and will not grow taller in the future.

Blog text (26)
Higher than normal fundamental frequencies were seen in those patients diagnosed as having diastrophic dwarfism, Hunter's syndrome, Larson's syndrome, Russell Silver syndrome, one of the patients with short stature of unknown etiology, and in three of the patients with achondroplasia.

Academic text (1995)
Achondroplasia is a genetic bone disorder affecting about one in every 25,000 infants.

Synonyms

dwarfism

vsachondroplasia

Specialized

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A medical condition that makes a person much shorter than average

is a specific genetic cause marked by failed cartilage conversion and characteristic features

chondrodystrophy

vsachondroplasia

Specialized

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A health problem passed from parents that makes bones and cartilage grow abnormally, causing short height and bone deformities

is a specific genetic disorder where cartilage fails to become bone with characteristic features

Surface Forms

achondroplasia singular

achondroplasias plural

Morphology

achondroplasia = chondroplasia (opaque) = a + chondro + plasia

The target is formed by adding the privative prefix 'a-' to the medical base 'chondroplasia', a regular morphological pattern even though the base is specialized.

Etymology

Achondroplasia breaks into Greek parts: a- 'without', chondr- 'cartilage', and -plasia 'formation', and it even shares the last root with plastic, a word about 'shaping'. So it names a condition where cartilage does not form and turn into bone, which is why people with it have short height.