nanism

[ ney-niz-uhm, nan-iz- ]

nounMedicine/Medical.
  1. the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.

Origin of nanism

1
1855–60; <French nanisme, equivalent to Greek nân(os) dwarf + French -isme-ism

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