Polymelia
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polymelia-169-10532309
title:
Polymelia
text:
Polymelia is a birth defect in which an affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs. It is a type of dysmelia. In humans and most land-dwelling vertebrates, this means having five or more limbs. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed. The term is from Greek πολυ- "many", μέλεα "limbs". Sometimes an embryo started as conjoined twins, but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin. Sometimes small extra le
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Medical condition
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymelia
date created:
2006-06-08T11:40:52Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T14:22:17Z
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13
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