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Abstract
Gross hypo- or aplasia of one or more long bones of one or more limbs. The concept includes amelia, hemimelia, phocomelia, and sirenomelia.
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- Congenital Limb Reduction Deformities
- Congenital Limb Reduction Deformity
- Amelia
- Fused Legs and Feet
- Hemimelia
- Mermaid Malformation
- Mermaid Syndrome
- Phocomelia
- Sirenomelia
- Sirenomelia Sequence
- Sirenomelus
- Malformation, Mermaid
- Sequence, Sirenomelia
- Sirenomelia Sequences
- Syndrome, Mermaid
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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History Note
1967(1963); PHOCOMELIA was see under ECTROMELIA 1967-78, was heading 1963-66; SIRENOMELIA was see under ECTROMELIA 1967-78
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Ectromelia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004480. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004480
- Ectromelia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectromelia
- Ectromelia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1323724