achondroplasty

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achondroplasty - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  achondroplasty
      n 1: an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth;
           cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism [syn:
           achondroplasia, achondroplasty, osteosclerosis congenita
           , chondrodystrophy]