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meromelia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
meromelia
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.

Countable; Uncountable

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Etymology

From mero- (“part, partial”) + Ancient Greek Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia (“disease suffix”).

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Inflected Forms

meromelias (plural)

Questions

What does meromelia mean?
A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
Where does meromelia come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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