Crossword-Solution: NANISM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Again, atrophy is to be separated from that general diminution in the size of the whole plant or of distinct parts of that plant which is comprised under the term "nanism." Thus the several dwarf varieties of plants (var.

NANISM, n[=a]'nizm, _n._ dwarfishness.--_n._ NANIS[=A]'TION, the artificial dwarfing of trees.--_adj._ N[=A]'NOID.

ABNORMAL TYPES OF STATURE AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL ETHICS Abnormal types of stature in their relation to moral training.--Macroscelia and brachyscelia in pathologic individuals (DE GIOVANNI'S hyposthenic and hypersthenic types).--Types of stature in emotional criminals and in parasites.--Extreme types of stature among the extra-social classes: Nanism and gigantism.

EXTREME OR INFANTILE TYPES, NANISM AND GIGANTISM, EXTRA-SOCIAL TYPES Whenever the disproportion between the bust and the limbs surpasses the extreme normal limits, the whole individual reveals a complex departure from type.

Thus, for example, in connection with extreme _brachyscelia_, there exists a characteristic form of nanism (dwarfishness), called _achondroplastic nanism_, in which, although the bust is developed very nearly within normal limits, the limbs on the contrary are arrested in their growth so as to remain permanently nothing more than _little appendages_ of the trunk.