Dwarf

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 13

(dworf). A being characterized by completed physical development, but having the various parts of unnaturally small dimensions, owing to insufficient growth. This condition is frequently a ociated with sterility and impotence. See A'anism, Mams. D. Elder, the Aralia hispid i a. Its root is a valuable diuretic. Dose of fld. ext. Unof. D. Tape -worm. See Tcenia nana.