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arachnodactyly

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arachnodactyly /arach·no·dac·ty·ly/ (ah-rak″no-dak´tĭ-le) extreme length and slenderness of fingers and toes.
a·rach·no·dac·ty·ly (-rkn-dkt-l)
n.
A condition in which the hands and fingers, and often the feet and toes, are abnormally long and slender, characteristic of Marfan syndrome.

Arachnodactyly
A condition characterized by abnormally long and slender fingers and toes.
Mentioned in: Marfan Syndrome

arachnodactyly
[ərak′nōdak′tilē]
Etymology: Gk, arachne, spider, dactylos, finger
a congenital anomaly in which the fingers and toes are long, thin, and spiderlike. It is seen in Marfan's syndrome.

arachnodactyly
1. Long fingers/toes 2. Obsolete for Marfan syndrome


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She is unusually tall, with an expansive reach and long, reed-thin fingers and toes-traits marking a condition so distinctive that ancient physicians named it arachnodactyly, after the Greek word for spider.
The researchers, led by Francesco Ramirez of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, also report finding a gene on chromosome 5 that codes for a different version of fibrillin, which may cause a related disorder of the fingers called congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
 
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