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What is skeletal dysplasia?

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A generalised developmental disorder of bone and cartilage which produces skull, spine and limb abnormalities

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What is Rhizomelic?

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Proximal short limb segment

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What is Mesomelic?

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Middle short limb segment

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What is Acromelic?

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Distal short limb segment

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What is Camptylodactyly?

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Congenital digital fixed flexion deformity

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What is Clindodacytyl?

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Congenital digital inclination deformity

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What is brachydacytyl?

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Congenital digital shortening

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What is Syndactyly?

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Congenital digital fusion

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What is Arachnodactyly?

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Spider finger MC index height/width > 8.4

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What is polydacytly?

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Congenital digital duplication

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What is osteogenesis imperfecta?

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A skeletal dysplasia with abnormal bone density colloquially called brittle bone disease

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What is Genotype?

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Genetic profile of an individual

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What is phenotype?

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Physical manifestation of a particular genotype

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What is Juvenile Idiopathic arthritis ?

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A child <16 yrs old with persistent arthritis in one or more joints for greater than 3 months after the exclusion of the differential dx ( infection, malignancy, blood dyscrasias, psoriatic arthropathy, ankylosing spondylitis)

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What is osteomalacia/ rickets?

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A skeletal disease in which there is inadequate mineralisation of bone.There is Qualitative not quantitative bone loss

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What is cerebral palsy?

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A disorder of movement and posture caused by a static lesion in the developing brain < 2yrs

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What is spasticity?

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What is neurofibromatosis?

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What is spina bifida?

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