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  2. Webbed toes - Wikipedia

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    The scientific name for the condition is syndactyly, although this term covers both webbed fingers and webbed toes. Syndactyly occurs when apoptosis or programmed cell death during gestation is absent or incomplete. Webbed toes occur most commonly in the following circumstances: [1] Syndactyly or familial syndactyly; Down syndrome

  3. Polysyndactyly - Wikipedia

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    Polysyndactyly is a congenital anomaly, combining polydactyly and syndactyly, in which affected individuals have an extra finger or toe that is connected, via fusing or webbing, to an adjacent digit. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  4. Syndactyly - Wikipedia

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    Syndactyly can be simple or complex. [2] In simple syndactyly, adjacent fingers or toes are joined by soft tissue. In complex syndactyly, the bones of adjacent digits are fused. The kangaroo exhibits complex syndactyly. Syndactyly can be complete or incomplete. In complete syndactyly, the skin is joined all the way to the tip of the involved ...

  5. Dactyly - Wikipedia

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    Zygodactyly (from Greek ζυγος, even-numbered) is an arrangement of digits in birds and chameleons, with two toes facing forward (digits 2 and 3) and two back (digits 1 and 4). This arrangement is most common in arboreal species, particularly those that climb tree trunks or clamber through foliage.

  6. Oligodactyly - Wikipedia

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    The hands and feet of people with ectrodactyly are often described as "claw-like" and may include only the thumb and one finger (usually either the little finger, ring finger, or a syndactyly of the two) with similar abnormalities of the feet. [7] People with oligodactyly often have full use of the remaining digits and adapt well to their ...

  7. Saethre–Chotzen syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Webbing between the second and third finger and between the second and third toes [2] Short fingers and toes (brachydactyly) [4] Broad thumb and/or a broad hallux (big toe) with a valgus deformity (outward angulation of the distal segment of a bone/joint) [6] Hands have a single palmar flexion crease [3]

  8. Interdigital webbing - Wikipedia

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    An example of interdigital webbing on an Abah River flying frog.. In oryzomyines, a mainly South American rodent group, the marsh rice rat, Pseudoryzomys simplex, and Sigmodontomys alfari all have small webs, which do not extend to the end of the proximal phalanges, whereas Amphinectomys savamis, Lundomys molitor and the members of the genera Holochilus and Nectomys have more expansive webbing ...

  9. Acrocephalosyndactyly - Wikipedia

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    Acrocephalosyndactyly presents in numerous different subtypes, however, considerable overlap in symptoms occurs. Generally, all forms of acrocephalosyndactyly are characterized by atypical craniofacial, hand, and foot characteristics, such as premature closure of the fibrous joints in between certain bones of the skull, [16] [17] fusion of certain fingers or toes, [16] [18] and/or more than ...