marfanoid habitus

marfanoid habitus

A leptosomic body type which is tall and thin with long hands; marfanoid features may be familial in nature or pathological, as occurs in homocystinuria and MEN type IIb, mimicking some of the changes of Marfan syndrome but not accompanied by luxation of lens, funnel chest or dissecting aneurysm of aorta.

marfanoid habitus

A leptosomic body type that is tall and thin with long hands; marfanoid features may be familial in nature or pathological as occurs in homocystinuria and MEN type IIb, mimicking some of the changes of Marfan syndrome, but not accompanied by luxation of lens, funnel chest, dissecting aneurysm of aorta