Is there more than one type of achondroplasia?
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There are some genetically related disorders including: \nHypochondroplasia \nFGFR-related craniosynostosis \nThanatophoric dysplasia \nSADDAN dysplasia=Severe achondroplasia
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Children who have a physical disability?
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A midget is small all over, in proportion. A Little Person, or dwarf, is usually small in one area of the body as compared to the others. Such as in achondroplasia, where the trunk is normal size, and the limbs are smaller. There are many different kinds of Little People. Check out their website-Little People of America. Very educational.
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one of about 200 types of dwarfism.
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1. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). This group of HDCTs mostly affects the skin and joints. With EDS, connective tissue becomes weak. This can cause fragile, sagging skin, and loose joints. \n2. Epidermolysis bullosa (EB). With these disorders, the skin blisters when it is stressed. For example, a hug could cause a blister. \n3. Marfan syndrome. This disorder can affect the heart, blood vessels, lungs, eyes, bones, and ligaments. People with this syndrome may be unusually tall and thin, with long arms and legs. \n4. Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). With this disorder, bones break easily. Sometimes they break for no obvious reason.
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When a parent has an inversion there is an increased risk for offspring with an incorrect amount of genetic material. This can lead to babies with birth defects and/or abnormal development or an increased risk for miscarriage. The possible pregnancy outcomes for an individual with an inversion is rather complicated and depends on how big the inversion is, where it is, and what type of inversion is present, paracentric or pericentric. There are many inversions that occur in the general population that are called normal variants. Including Inv(9) and Inv(2). These inversions are not related to an increased risk of birth defects and/or developmental difficulties.
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YES, as I was surprised to learn, the person is called a "chimera"...it's a REAL medical condition!\n\nshort, but informative article:\nhttp://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=23
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skeletal(striated)\nsmooth \ncardiac
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Yep, if you stand on your head. . .LOL.\n\nSeriously though, anything is possible.  I suppose it would be considered a birth defect, though.
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yes. there are full bony impactions, partial bony impactions and soft tissue impactions.
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Different disorders.  My sister is mentally chalenged and i have found that the the kids that are worse, usually look a little different.  This can be caused by many different problems in birth.  Others are the result of down syndrome.  It is the same as a mentally stable person that doesn't look "normal".
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Congenital lack of growth hormone causes extremely short stature and is the most "typical" cause of "dwarfness". \n\nHowever, several other conditions may cause short stature, including precocious puberty and several congenital anomalies (e.g. Turner syndrome).
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dyplasia is an abnormal development of the head of the femur.  Usually, children are born with this condition.  You must be seeing an orthopedic MD.  I don't have it but one of my sons did.  He walked with an unnormal gait and had pain a lot of the time.  When your bones mature, hopefully surgery can correct it, but I'm not sure.  My son never had the chance to find out.  Good luck.
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Dextroscoliosis is more commonly known as just "scoliosis". These links may be of help:\n\nhttp://www.pediatric-orthopedics.com/Treatments/Scoliosis/scoliosis.html\nhttp://orthoinfo.aaos.org/brochure/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=14&topcategory=Spine\nhttp://www.srs.org/patients/review\nhttp://www.iscoliosis.com/
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Yes, it is called an acrostic.  Here are some links.
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www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ twinstripletsmultiplebirths.html \n i think this will help \ngood luck
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Clefts occur in 1 in 700 newborns.