Just now in the bus from Miami Beach, the fellow sitting in the seat in front of me had extraordinary fingers: very thick, probably due to daily manual work (like a friend's 'sausage fingers', he hand-scrubs boat bottoms of barnacles & algae), but healso had a tiny distal phallanx at the thumb and the index fingertips. He otherwise looked normal, likely an immigrant from Haiti, no abnormal physical features. I attempted to take a phone photo, but at the next bus stop he departed.
What could cause such a rare condition? If manual work, why the tiny fingertips? The thumb phallanx was half the size of a girl's thumb phallanx.
On Saturday 9 July 2022 at 18:11:46 UTC+1, DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:also had a tiny distal phallanx at the thumb and the index fingertips. He otherwise looked normal, likely an immigrant from Haiti, no abnormal physical features. I attempted to take a phone photo, but at the next bus stop he departed.
Just now in the bus from Miami Beach, the fellow sitting in the seat in front of me had extraordinary fingers: very thick, probably due to daily manual work (like a friend's 'sausage fingers', he hand-scrubs boat bottoms of barnacles & algae), but he
What could cause such a rare condition? If manual work, why the tiny fingertips? The thumb phallanx was half the size of a girl's thumb phallanx.Suggest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachydactyly_type_D
Surprisingly common. All kinds of names
and variations.
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