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hypomorph


1. A person whose standing height is short in proportion to the sitting height, owing to shortness of the limbs.

Compare: hypermorph, endomorph.

2. A mutant gene that causes a partial decrease in the activity controlled by the gene.

Compare: hypermorph.

Origin: hypo-+ G. Morphe, form