Amelie (medicine)
Classification according to ICD-10 | |
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Q73.8 | Other reduction defects of unspecified extremity (s) |
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) |
Amelie (from ancient Greek μέλος mélos "limb" with alpha privativum ) describes a congenital malformation with the absence of one or more limbs .
If all four limbs are affected, one speaks of a tetra-amelia .
If the arms are affected, this is called an abrachia .
If there is no lack, but a malformation with deformation and / or shortening, the term is dysmelia .
literature
- Willibald Pschyrembel: Clinical Dictionary . 265th edition. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2014, ISBN 3-11-018534-2 , p. 389 .