Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In teratology, a monster with very short extremities, the hands and feet being apparently attached directly to the trunk.

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  • noun dated Phocomelia.
  • noun A person born with phocomelia.

Etymologies

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See phocomelia.

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Examples

  • Parvin 2.158 also pictures the ` ` turtle-man, '' an individual with deformed extremities, who might be classed as an ectromelus, perhaps as a phocomelus, or seal-like monster.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • One character who clearly does possess hyper-normal powers is the phocomelus Harrington.

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • "turtle-man," an individual with deformed extremities, who might be classed as an ectromelus, perhaps as a phocomelus, or seal-like monster.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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