Phocomélie

The phocomélie (of the Greek phôkê : seal and mélos : member) is a Malformation (an anomaly of the development) during the pregnancy leading to an individual ectromélien (stop of development of one or several member S) being characterized by an atrophy of the members leading to some extent to the direct establishment of the hands and the feet on the trunk.

The term was borrowed from that of seal which the phocomèle resembles. One designates the patients under the name of phocomèles.

The Dupuytren museum of Paris has a skeleton as well as a wax statue, of an individual reaches phocomélie.

See too

  • Teratogenic Thalidomide

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