meromelia

English

Etymology

From mero- (“part, partial”) + Ancient Greek Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia (“disease suffix”).

Noun

meromelia (countable and uncountable, plural meromelias)

  1. 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, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
    • 2006, Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects, page 126:
      As already mentioned, limb deficiencies – amelias and meromelias – represent an important group of limb abnormalities.
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