Usually means: Rare congenital disorder, limb malformation.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. phocomelia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. phocomelia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. phocomelia: Collins English Dictionary
  4. phocomelia: Vocabulary.com
  5. phocomelia: Wordnik
  6. phocomelia: Wiktionary
  7. phocomelia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. phocomelia: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. phocomelia: Dictionary.com
  10. Phocomelia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. phocomelia: Rhymezone
  12. phocomelia: FreeDictionary.org
  13. phocomelia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. phocomelia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. phocomelia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. phocomelia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. phocomelia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Phocomelia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. phocomelia: Medical dictionary
  6. Phocomelia: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phocomelia)

noun:  A congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet.

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