Associations to the word «Achondroplasia»

Wiktionary

ACHONDROPLASIA, noun. (teratology) A genetic disorder, the most common form of short limb dwarfism.

Dictionary definition

ACHONDROPLASIA, noun. An inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope