What is the name of the disease characterized by:?

Question

underdeveloped arms, sometimes insensitively called "t-rex arms" or "chicken wings" and the disability shown by the butler in the movie "scary movie 2"? I'm looking for the medical term, not a name to make fun of.

Answer 1

From looking at pictures of the caretaker in Scary Movie 2, it looks like he is afflicted by a deformity such as Claw hand rather than a disease characterized underdeveloped arms.

I found that many occurrences of shortened limbs are a result from the skeletal dysplasia associated with dwarfism. In relation to the upper limbs affected by short-limb dwarfism, rhizomelic pertains to proximal (humerus) shortening, mesomelic refers to middle (ulna/radius) shortening, and micromelic describes the shortening of the entire limb.

Many similar types of abnormalities occur from recognized syndromes. Holt-Oram syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes upper limb defects, and VATER syndrome is an association of various congenital defects that include radial dysplasia.

Some preaxial deficiencies affect the development of the upper limbs, and are classified by the differences in their effects. Of these, type 1 results in a shortened radius, and type 2 results in a hypoplastic radius.

Humeroradial synostosis, or the union of the humerus and radius by osseous tissue, could also cause shortening of the arms.

From my research I saw that all occurrences of underdeveloped arms resulted were caused by a more general condition that resulted in other ailments as well. Although I wasn't able to determine a singular cause of what you described, but hopefully some of this information will prove to be useful in helping you find what you are looking for. Good luck!