phocomelus
nounEtymology See phocomelia.
1
Dated Phocomelia.
2
A person with phocomelia.
- He did not say that his wife's brother back on Earth was a phocomelus; he had been born without arms and made use of superb artificial ones designed for him by a Canadian firm which specialized in such equipment.1964, Philip K. Dick, “Martian Time-Slip”, in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s, Library of America, published 2008, page 41: