chondrodystrophy

(kon-dro-dis'tro-fe) [G. chondros, cartilage, -Idys-,AiSicvi\X,+;ro/>Ae, nourishment.] Achondroplasia, disturbance in the normal proce of o ification in cartilage, dating from intrauterine life, resulting in arrested growth of the long bones and a condition of stocky dwarfism the head is large, the nates and abdomen are prominent, the fingers are divergent (see cut under trident* hand), and the extremities are disproportionately short in comparison with the torso, hypeiplas'tic c, a form in which there is an extreme outgrowth of the epiphyses with corresponding distortion of the joints, hypoplas'tic c, a form in which the shafts of the long bones are composed of spongy bone with irregular Havers i an systems, the marrow cavity is not in