trichorhinophalangeal
English
Etymology
tricho- + rhino- + phalangeal
Adjective
trichorhinophalangeal (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Relating to the hair, nose, and phalanges (finger or toe bones); applied to Langer-Giedion syndrome.
- 1969, Daniel Bergsma, The First Conference on the Clinical Delineation of Birth Defects: Special lectures, March of Dimes:
- Doctor Giedeon described several children with what he called the trichorhinophalangeal syndrome because they had involvement of hair, which was sparse and thin and did not grow well, because they had involvement of their phalanges with peculiar cone-shaped epiphyses, and because they had in common a physiognomy characterized by what he called a pear-shaped nose […]
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