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Answer for the clue "Cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism ", 16 letters:
chondrodystrophy

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Chondrodystrophy (literally, "cartilage maldevelopment") refers to a skeletal disorder caused by one of myriad genetic mutations that can affect the development of cartilage . As a very general term it is only used in the medical literature when a more ...

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n. an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism [syn: achondroplasia , achondroplasty , osteosclerosis congenita ]