contracturaladj.
/kənˈtraktjʊərəl/ Medicine. Characterized by a contracture or contractures.
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1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.
1971 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 53A 992 Even in contractural arachnodactyly the contractures may remain and even progress.
1983 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. II. xvii. 28 Patients with..Marfan syndrome may develop contractures of the extremities; there is a very rare condition which..resembles it..called congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
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