Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of dwarfism due to imperfect or arrested development.
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- noun Alternative form of
ateliosis .
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- noun a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence
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His theory was that she suffered from a form of overall growth retardation which could not be accounted for by any of the known causes of dwarfism, something he chose to call ‘ateleiosis’ (‘not arriving at perfection’).
Gaby Wood · The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness · LRB 11 December 1997 Gaby Wood 2020
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