| My son has a condition called achondroplasia, which is a form of dwarfism that affects the long bones of the body. |
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| Mutations in the transmembrane domain of FGFR3 cause the most common genetic form of dwarfism, achondroplasia. |
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| Cushing recognized the states of hypopituitarism and hyperpituitarism, and he had a keen interest in acromegaly and dwarfism. |
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| The scientific point was that in the past 10 years, the mutations responsible for nearly all forms of dwarfism had been identified. |
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| The physical characteristics associated with this disorder include gargoylism and dwarfism. |
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| At four feet five inches tall, Fin's dwarfism has earned him prying stares and questions all of his life. |
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| Another form of dwarfism that was formerly included in the spectrum of achondroplasia is dystrophic dwarfism. |
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| There was no history of familial dwarfism or known exposure to teratogenic drugs. |
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| Many variations in the human form, such as dwarfism or gigantism, can arise from such combined mutations. |
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| The over production of somatotrophin can cause gigantism while under production can result in dwarfism. |
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| Non-pathologic, non-ecophenotypic dwarfism and giantism are considered to be rare processes. |
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| Now all children with pituitary dwarfism are treated with recombinant human growth hormone. |
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| The phenomenon of giantism is common, while dwarfism occurs at the highest altitudes. |
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| Arises from the inadequate GH production during childhood and adolescence dwarfism. |
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| If you would like to learn more about diastrophic dwarfism, please visit the site of the Association québécoise des personnes de petite taille. |
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| The problem, according to Martin, is that while the body size of a large species shrinks considerably in cases of island dwarfism, brain size shrinks moderately. |
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| Daniella Lipscombe needs to watch bands from a raised platform because she has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and is 4ft 5in. |
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| Examples of disorders involving this growth mechanism include rickets and achondroplastic dwarfism. |
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| Dwarf tossing does not have the support of the majority of persons with dwarfism living in Florida or the United States. |
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| Lastly, what does it say about our country that we as a society endorse the subjugation of persons with dwarfism? |
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| The potential injury to a person with dwarfism means tax payers likely will assume the cost of care thereafter. |
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| 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. |
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| As a person with a disability, specifically dwarfism, Rachel found the career search daunting. |
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| He was born with dwarfism and no eyes and spent his younger years in a puppy mill before being rescued and trained as a therapy dog. |
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| But Ursula MacFarlane's film also makes no bones about the fact that dwarfism brings with it other problems the audience can't see. |
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| The Hollywood actor, whose dwarfism is the result of the rare genetic disorder cartilage-hair hypoplasia, is never far from controversy. |
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| Fuzz behind the drumkit, and as a teenagerwith mum June, who was born with a form of dwarfism. |
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| Both Trent and Amber are achondroplastic dwarves, with the kind of dwarfism that affects your extremities. |
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| Rankin, now 15, suffers from a rare condition called skeletal dysplasia or commonly referred to as dwarfism. |
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| The medical device is designed to treat bone fractures and deformities as well as bone defects, dwarfism, polio, rachitism and Blount's disease. |
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| Grumpy's permanent scowl is a result of her having been born with dwarfism and an underbite. |
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| Use of an inhibitor of dipeptidyl peptidase IV in the preparation of a therapeutic composition for the treatment of sub-normal development or dwarfism. |
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| The absence of somatotropin in physiologic amounts leads to dwarfism. |
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| Finally, insufficient zinc appears to be linked to a higher risk of dwarfism, diarrhoea and pneumonia. Of course it is difficult to disaggregate the effects of deficiencies in micronutrients from hunger more broadly. |
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| A third condition, Hallerman-Streiff-François syndrome, is characterized by the presence of progeria in combination with dwarfism and other features of abnormal growth. |
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| People with achondroplastic dwarfism, also detectable prenatally, are more readily accepted than ever before, with more accommodations than ever before. |
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| One deleterious condition that is caused by a dominant allele present at low frequencies in human populations is achondroplasia, the most common cause of dwarfism. |
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| In addition, short stature and GH deficiency are often found in children diagnosed with psychosocial dwarfism, which results from severe emotional deprivation. |
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| Canada has a recent history of a small epidemic of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease due to injection of human growth hormone to children with a cruel disease, pituitary dwarfism. |
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| Doctors do prescribe the use of HGH supplements to children facing growth related problems like deficiency of this hormone is known to cause dwarfism. |
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| In general terms, Miniature Schnauzers are simply a smaller version of the Schnauzer: small, vigorous and elegant, stocky rather than slim, with wry hair and without any sign of dwarfism. |
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| The dwarfism is a reflex of survival, in these extremely dry regions. |
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| Jude Peters is an adorable one-year-old boy living with a disease called rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata, a rare and fatal form of dwarfism. |
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| This, coupled with pathological dwarfism, could have resulted in a significantly diminutive human. |
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| The current record holder for the world's smallest horse is Thumbelina, a fully mature miniature horse affected by dwarfism. |
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| Achondroplasia is the most common form of human dwarfism and is characterized by failure of normal conversion of cartilage into bone. |
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| Max suffers from achondroplasia, a bone-growth disorder responsible for 70 per cent of dwarfism cases. |
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| Symptoms include growth failure, dwarfism, hair loss, aged-looking skin and joint stiffness. |
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| A comparison of isolated growth hormone deficiency and multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies in 35 patients with idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism. |
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