Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to upheavals or displacements in the earth's crust; of the nature of diastrophism.
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Examples
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As editing is the reading moment: the multimplication of material in Divestiture — A yields a thresholding surplus, a hyper-trophy of enjoyments: its post-personalizing thrill bursting from an energizing strangeness of interferences, interruptions, and diastrophic collisions.
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But diastrophic dysplasia and cartilage-hair hypoplasia, recessive forms of dwarfism, are on the list.
Media Nation 2010
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The situation is reminiscent of her childhood, when she spent a lot of time in the hospital due to her diastrophic dwarfism.
unknown title 2009
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The situation is reminiscent of her childhood, when she spent a lot of time in the hospital due to her diastrophic dwarfism.
unknown title 2009
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Qureshi F, Jacques SM, Johnson SF, Johnson MP, Evans MI, Yang SS: Histopathology of fetal diastrophic dysplasia.
Prenatal Diagnosis 2010
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