dwarfism

How To Use dwarfism In A Sentence

• Following three young people with dwarfism, with the focus on normal everyday challenges. Times, Sunday Times
• The over production of somatotrophin can cause gigantism while under production can result in dwarfism.
• Thapa Magar suffers from a condition known as primordial dwarfism, which only afflicts about 100 people worldwide, according to Telegraph. Khagendra Thapa Magar, World's Smallest Teenager, Asked To Promote Mount Everest Tourism (VIDEO)
• Examples of such dwarfism or gigantism include the giant tortoises of the Seychelles islands, Indonesia's Komodo dragons, and the boas of the Belizean Snake Cayes.
• The most common form of dwarfism is achondroplasia.
• Insular dwarfism is where animals on islands become smaller because of restricted food resources. Times, Sunday Times
• Another form of dwarfism that was formerly included in the spectrum of achondroplasia is dystrophic dwarfism.
• Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague
• The scientific point was that in the past 10 years, the mutations responsible for nearly all forms of dwarfism had been identified.
• Many metals, for example, have adverse effects on plants if they are concentrated to high levels; the result is plant deformities, dwarfism, or death of the plant.