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Phocomelia vs Amelia - What's the difference?

phocomelia | amelia |

As nouns the difference between phocomelia and amelia

is that phocomelia is a congenital disorder of the limbs, the affected person being born with abnormally short or missing bones and flipper-like hands or feet while amelia is the congenital absence of one or more limbs.

As a proper noun Amelia is

{{given name|female|from=Germanic}.

phocomelia

English

(wikipedia phocomelia)

Noun

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

    • Related terms

    * phocomelus

    Hypernyms

    * dysmelia

    Coordinate terms

    * thalidomide baby

    amelia

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • * 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam , Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
    • By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia ; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
  • * 1982 , Saving Amelia Earhart ,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction, ISBN 0814316956 page 66:
    • We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia' Earhart, lost over the ocean. - - - Air Heart, I saw it spelled, ' Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.

    See also

    * Alma * Amy * Emily