Crossword-Solution: DWARFISM
We have 4 clues for the answer “DWARFISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stunted condition | 1 answer |
| THYROXINE, condition during growth years caused by hyposecretion of | 1 answer |
| condition of being a dwarf | 1 answer |
| GROWTH failure of body | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DWARFISM (5)
The offspring tainted with alcoholic blastophthoria suffer from various bodily and physical anomalies, among which are dwarfism, rickets, a predisposition to tuberculosis and epilepsy, moral idiocy and idiocy in general, a disposition to crime and mental diseases, sexual perversions, loss of suckling in women, and many other misfortunes.
Dwarfism is very apt to be attended by preservation of the intellectual faculties without evidence of degeneracy, other than the egotism shown in extreme vanity.
Moral defects are, however, more apt to occur in dwarfism than in giantism, in which last condition mental defect is apt to occur, varying from a simple good-humoured stupidity to feeble-mindedness.
Infantilism is peculiarly apt to occur with giantism, and while less frequent in dwarfism it also occurs, but is then especially apt to be associated with rickets.
The chief characteristics of the disease are arrested growth and softening of the bones, with dwarfism and deformities as a result.
Quotes with DWARFISM (3)
Nothing crushes in the person his sense of self such as him following the common opinions, and be unable to make criticizing positions against what he hears or sees. The ability to express the convictions is the line between the ability and inability, and the awakening and sleep, and the growing and dwarfism.
McKusick's belief in this paradigm-the focus on disability rather than abnormalcy-was actualized in the treatment of patients in his clinic. Patients with dwarfism, for instance, were treated by an interdisciplinary team of genetic counselors, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, nurses, and psychiatrists trained to focus on specific disabilities of persons with short stature. Surgical interventions were reserved to correct specific deformities as they arose. The goal was not t…
I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).