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Amelia (birth defect)
Failure of limb(s) to develop during embryonic growth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Amelia (disambiguation).
Amelia is the birth defect of lacking one or more limbs.[1][2] The term may be modified to indicate the number of legs or arms missing at birth, such as tetra-amelia for the absence of all four limbs. The term is from Ancient Greek ἀ- 'lack of' and μέλος 'limb'.
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