A genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

Usage examples of dwarfism.

This was a type of dwarfism that resulted from a spontaneous mutation.

He went to medical reference on his computer and let it search Retarded Growth, Premature Maturity, and Dwarfism, and sat down to read it on screen.

My guess is that at the very beginning of his teaching career he realized that he would have to compensate in some very definite, dramatic way for the physical inadequacies of his person -- his extreme nearsightedness, his dwarfism making him laughable, vulnerable.

Such pituitary failure in young produces dwarfism, a tendency to gross obesity, and arrested sexual development.

I can get a patient in time, in childhood, often a humiliating condition like dwarfism can be cured or tempered.

Just as two people with dwarfism may produce a child of average height, so can two Muggles, who have mostly dormant magic genes, produce a child with enough active magic genes to be a witch or wizard.

His dwarfism had crippled him, causing intermittent flashes of agony in his legs, hips, and chest, but he had the upper body strength of an ape (no racial slur intended -- it was a surprising compensatory fact of his unique build), and he refused to let his pain, even when severe, restrict his activity.