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A form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence
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ateliosis
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n. a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence [syn: ateleiosis ]
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alt. (context medicine dated English) A form of dwarfism accompanied by a childlike high-pitched voice and abnormal genitalia. n. (context medicine dated English) A form of dwarfism accompanied by a childlike high-pitched voice and abnormal genitalia.
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Ateliosis or ateleiosis is a diagnosis used in the early 1900s to describe patients with short stature. Ateliosis literally means "failure to achieve perfection", and was used to describe proportional dwarfism . The term was popularised by Hastings Gilford ...