ectrodactyly
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English
Noun
ectrodactyly (plural ectrodactylies)
- (medicine) The deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot.
- Hyponyms: monodactyly, didactyly, tridactyly, tetradactyly
- 1995, Robert J. Gorlin, Helga V. Toriello, M. Michael Cohen, Jr., Hereditary Hearing Loss and Its Syndromes, Oxford University Press, page 184,
- 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).
- 2003, Giorgio R. Merlo, Annemiek Beverdam, Giovanni Levi, Dix genes in craniofacial and limb morphogenesis, Thomas Lufkin (editor), Murine Homeobox Gene Control of Embryonic Patterning and Organogenesis, Elsevier, page 119,
- 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.
- 2012, Joshua A. Copel, Obstetric Imaging, Elsevier, page 325,
- EEC is the best known of the syndromic ectrodactylies, but it is extremely rare, with only 200 reported cases.
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deficiency or absence of central digits of the hand or foot
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