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Meaning of polidactilia



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

polidactilia
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Etymologically it means many fingers. In Medicine and Anatomy it is a congenital anomaly that consists of the existence of supernumerary fingers on hands and feet. This malformation can occur in several, all or only one of the limbs.

  



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Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

Polydactyly is a genetic malformation for which a human or an animal is born with more fingers that deserves. This malformation can occur in the hand or foot.

  










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