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Nanism

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Noun
  1. 1
    Unusually small size, as the result of a developmental abnormality. countable, uncountable

    "In this gene, other mutations can cause a kind of nanism that is lethal during the first weeks of life."

  2. 2
    a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature wordnet

Etymology

From nano- + -ism.

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