Noun: meromelia
| Singular | meromelia |
| Plural | meromelias |
Sample Sentences
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As already mentioned, limb deficiencies – amelias and meromelias – represent an important group of limb abnormalities. [2006, Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects, page 126:]
Nouns inflected like meromelia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From mero- (“part, partial”) + Ancient Greek Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia (“disease suffix”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέλος'.