Dwarfism Definition

Dwarfism Sentence Examples

• Dwarfism from impaired longitudinal growth of bones is a recessive trait that affects males more strongly than females.

• Since the tribes practised far more in-breeding than out-breeding, the tendency was toward forming not only verbal linguistic groups, but biological varieties; the weaker the tribe, the fewer the captures, the greater the isolation and harder the conditions - producing dolichocephaly, dwarfism and other retrogressive characteristics.

• What causes gigantism and dwarfism among many species arriving on oceanic islands such as the Seychelles?

• As soon as indiscriminant breeders started to flood the market, aberrations such as dwarfism in Toy Poodles appeared, along with a host of genetic problems that dedicated and diligent breeders are still trying to irradicate to this day.

• Dwarfism (very small stature) can be due to underproduction of hGH, lack of IGH-I, or a flaw in target tissue response to either of these growth hormones.