Crossword-Solution: ACHONDROPLASIA 14 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets--a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.

The _X-ray appearances_ of the bones affected are of a striking character; apart from the outgrowths of bone or "tumours" there is evident a widespread alteration in the internal architecture of the bones, which suggests analogies with other disturbances of ossification such as achondroplasia and osteomyelitis fibrosa.

Lastly, certain diseases of the fœtus, and particularly such as affect the skeleton--for example, achondroplasia--cause congenital deformities.

Cretinism has to be distinguished from the state of a Mongolian idiot, in whom there is no thickening of the subcutaneous tissues, and much greater alertness of mind; from achondroplasia, in which condition there is usually no mental impairment; and from infantilism, which covers a group of symptoms whose only common point is that the primary and secondary sexual characteristics fail to appear at the proper time.