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- noun The
deficiency orabsence of one or morecentral digits of thehand orfoot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun congenital abnormality involving the absence of some fingers or toes
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In fact, I was told by someone recently that when you go online on Google and look under the word ectrodactyly, there's my picture.
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In fact, I was told by someone recently that when you go online on Google and look under the word ectrodactyly, there's my picture.
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In fact, I was told by someone recently that when you go online on Google and look under the word ectrodactyly, there's my picture.
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Pierce was born with a rare genetic birth defect called ectrodactyly, which means he only has three fingers on each hand.
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Bree Walker, that TV newswoman with ectrodactyly....looks like she's been hanging out at Camp Casey in Crawford.
What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009
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Bree Walker has a genetic hand and foot deformity called ectrodactyly.
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Well, ectrodactyly is not a common word, so to the average viewer you could just say it's just fused fingers and toes.
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WALKER: Approximately one in 90,000 to 100,000 people with an ectrodactyly that shows up like this, but the ectodermal dysplasia family has a lot more people with various manifestations.
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But when I had the blood drawn to join the Human Genome Project to isolate where ectrodactyly comes from, it was interesting to learn that in fact it's part of a larger family, including the ectodermal dysplasia, of which there are many.
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J. LAMPLEY: Ninety-nine percent of the time, I'm not conscious of ectrodactyly.
hernesheir commented on the word ectrodactyly
Also ectrodactylia, ectrodactylism.
December 27, 2010