See Also: adducted thumbs with mental reatardation(medicine)
Adducted thumbs with mental retardation(health)
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mental(dictionary)
mental(1)(dictionary)
mental(2)(dictionary)

gametic (iou) and adducted thumbs with mental reatardation (medicine)


gametic (iou)



gametic adjective. E20.
[from GAMETE + -IC.]
Biology. Of or pertaining to a gamete or gametes; of the Nature of a gamete.
gametically adverb E20.

adducted thumbs with mental reatardation (medicine)


adducted thumbs with mental reatardation


A syndrome with the following characteristic features: (1) neurologically:mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). The syndrome is inherited as an X-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names include MASA syndrome ( MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs), clasped thumb and mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, and the Gareis-Mason syndrome.