meromelia

[医]残肢，肢体部分缺失

词形变化

meromelias 复数 meromelias

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

birth defect congenital disorder

下位词 4

adactylia adactylism adactyly phocomelia

词源

From mero- (“part, partial”) + Ancient Greek Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia (“disease suffix”).

来源：wiktionary