Ateliosis

Template:Short description Ateliosis or ateleiosis is a diagnosis used in the early 1900s to describe patients with short stature. Ateliosis literally means "failure to achieve perfection", and was used to describe proportional dwarfism.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The term was popularised by Hastings Gilford, who used the term to refer to forms of dwarfism associated with and without sexual maturation.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Ateliosis was reported as early as 1904 in relation to progeria, a syndrome of premature aging.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is "dwarfism associated with anterior pituitary deficiencies and marked by essentially normal intelligence and proportions though often retarded sexual development".<ref>"Ateliosis." Merriam Webster.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2010.</ref> The physical characteristics include: normal facial features, childlike high pitched voice, proportioned body, and abnormal genitalia. Their mental development is normal to slightly delayed. Hastings Gilford originated the term to describe patients with "continuous youth".<ref>Worster-Drought C., Archer BW. "A Case of Ateleiosis (Lorain’s Disease)." Proc R Soc Med 20.6 (1927): 771-773. PubMed. Web. 8 Mar. 2010.</ref>