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Kniest syndrome
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Kniest syndrome (knst)
n.
An inherited syndrome characterized by short limbs, round face with central depression, enlargement and stiffness of joints, and contracture of fingers, and often including cleft palate, scoliosis, retinal detachment and myopia, and deafness; it is a form of metatropic dwarfism.


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KNIEST DYSPLASIA THIS rare genetic bone growth disorder is characterised by dwar fism and affects fewer than one in a million people.
 
 
 
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