Syndactylism (Noun)
Meaning
Birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Syndactylism is a congenital anomaly that can affect any finger or toe, with the most common cases being the joining of the second and third fingers or the third and fourth fingers.
- Poland syndrome and Greig cephalopolysyndactyly are genetic conditions often accompanied by complex forms of syndactylism involving more than one set of limbs.
- Cohen syndrome and various limb deficiencies often display elements of complex or complicated forms of syndactylism involving abnormal connective tissues in different finger groups.
- Tethering structures which become calcified later during adolescence form usually milder expressions of congenital complete web syndactylism like symphalangy are indeed mostly impossible for fingers connected just superficially for shorter extensions that normally possess quite tough cellular component yet much closer connected down after onset developmental adaptation.
- When only skin tissue holds the digits together on some regions in consequence not visibly visible through nail but may sometimes occur around one deeper and further localized and in consequence also difficult isolable to skin because the tissue has possibly become naturally assimilated while further through direct relation continuing back eventually will influence then of.