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primordial dwarf
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primordial dwarf,
a person of extremely short stature who is otherwise perfectly formed, with the usual proportions of body parts and normal mental and sexual development. The condition may be genetically related, involving some defect in the ability to use growth hormone, or it may occur sporadically within a particular population. Also called hypoplastic dwarf, normal dwarf, physiologic dwarf, pure dwarf, true dwarf. See also pituitary dwarf, pygmy.


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And Cllr Rotheram also helped the Walking with Giants Foundation set up by the family of Alex Connerty, who, at just 30ins tall, suffers from primordial dwarfism.
Curtain down on year of memories; Today, one of Liverpool's most ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Wednesday Extraordinary People: Britain's Tiniest Toddlers, five, 9pm This programme charts the lives of three children who have microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism, an incredibly rare condition that means they are half the size of other children their age.
HIGHLIGHT by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
But Pingping, who was born with primordial dwarfism, was thinking of his girlfriend back in Inner Mongolia.
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT.. by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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