Skeletal Dysplasia Terminology

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Across
  1. 3. Prominent heel and a convex sole
  2. 6. Congenital defect where the bones of one or more limbs are either missing or shortened. This leads to a flipperlike appearance of the limbs because the entire limbs are forshortened
  3. 7. Hypoplasia or aplasia of the radius and thumb
  4. 8. Shortening of proximal bone segment (fever/humerus)
  5. 10. One of two terms for severe cranial stenosis due to premature closure of sagittal, coronal and lambdoid sutures
  6. 11. Congenital absence of all or part of the distal half of a limb
  7. 13. Shortening of the entire extremity
  8. 14. Curving of the fifth finger towards the fourth finger
  9. 16. Extra digits on hand and/or foot
  10. 17. Club foot; Abnormal inversion of foot perpendicular to the lower leg (medially inverted)
  11. 18. Roundback or hunchback, is a condition in which the spine in the upper back has an excessive curvature
  12. 19. Two or more digits are fused together
Down
  1. 1. Split hand deformity
  2. 2. Congenital anomaly of the skull in which the top of the head assumes a conical or pointed shape due to premature closure of lambdoid and coronal sutures
  3. 4. Hands are short with stubby fingers with a separation between the middle and ring fingers
  4. 5. One of two terms for severe cranial stenosis due to premature closure of sagittal, coronal and lambdoid sutures
  5. 9. The congenital absence of one or more limbs
  6. 12. Shortening of the middle bone segment (radius/ulna; tibia/fibula)
  7. 15. Spine has a sideways curve, the curve is usually ā€œSā€ or ā€œCā€ shaped
  8. 16. Flattened vertebral bodies throughout the axial skeleton