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DYSPLASIA SYNDROME - DYSMORPHIC - MULTIPLE ANOMALIES
(details from "Minerve chassant les Vices du Jardin de la Vertu (Minerva expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtues)"), 1506 Andrea Mantegna Louvre Museum, Paris, France
This individual has unusual (dysmorphic) facial features (suggestive of mental abnormality) and the missing arms are due to prenatal causes (etiology). In medical parlance, this is an instance of "phocomelia" (seal like arms).
A "Clinical Dysmorphologist" probably would also note the sparse and senile like hair and skin, peculiar gaze and breasts - concluding that this individual suffers form a generalized multiple congenital anomalies syndrome.
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