Bruce M. Rothschild, Hans-Peter Schultze and Rodrigo PellegriniHerpetological OsteopathologyAnnotated Bibliography of Amphibians and Reptiles10.1007/978-1-4614-0824-6_3© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Classification
(1)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
(2)
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Congenital
Malformations/homeobox anomalies/growth:
Amely
congenital absence of limb(s).
Brachydactyly
short digits.
Brachygnathy
mandibular micrognathia
abnormal shortness of mandible.
Bone bridge
spans space between two margins of bent bone. Linear rays of bone extending filling margins between bone margins.
Ectodactyly
absence of one or more digits (from aphalangia, in which some of the phalanges or finger bones are missing, to adactyly, the absence of a digit).
Ectomely
absence of one or more limbs or incomplete limb with missing lower portion; the term includes amely, hemimely, and meromely.
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