Short stature (an unsatisfactory label), nanism (preferable term but unpopular). Recently, the term dwarf became derogatory. This is a disproportional chondrodystrophy with apparently not-bowed long bones and a normally proportioned face – these characteristics imply that achondroplasia is unlikely.
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