Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having abnormally short fingers.
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- adjective having abnormally short finger or toes
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Moreover, it will be found, if a number of brachydactylous persons are examined, that no two of them are affected to exactly the same degree.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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It tends to affect the entire skeleton, and in a family where one child is markedly brachydactylous, that child is generally shorter than the others.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
qms commented on the word brachydactylous
A small-minded leader is fractious,
One shriveled in heart is disastrous,
But heaven forfend
Our fate should depend
On one who is brachydactylous.
July 15, 2017