phocomelus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See phocomelia.
Noun
[edit]phocomelus (countable and uncountable, plural phocomeli)
- (dated) Phocomelia.
- A person with phocomelia.
- 1964, Philip K. Dick, “Martian Time-Slip”, in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s, Library of America, published 2008, page 41:
- He did not say that his wife's brother back on Earth was a phocomelus; he had been born without arms and made use of superb artificial ones designed for him by a Canadian firm which specialized in such equipment.