different between phocomelus vs phocomelia

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See phocomelia.

phocomelus (countable and uncountable, plural phocomeli)

(dated) Phocomelia.
A person with phocomelia.
- 1964, Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip, in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s, Library of America 2008, p. 41:
  He did not say that his wife's brother back on Earth was a phocomelus; he had been born without arms and made use of superb artificial ones designed for him by a Canadian firm which specialized in such equipment.

From Ancient Greek ???? (ph?k?, “seal”) + ????? (mélos, “limb”) +? -ia.

phocomelia (usually uncountable, plural phocomelias)

A congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet.

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