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
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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.
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One character who clearly does possess hyper-normal powers is the phocomelus Harrington.
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"turtle-man," an individual with deformed extremities, who might be classed as an ectromelus, perhaps as a phocomelus, or seal-like monster.
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