Achondroplasia is characterized by disproportionately short limbs, a normal-sized torso, large head, and with a depressed nasal bridge, right here, a small face, and stubby hands, as well as the curvature of the spine.
But the stubby tailbone sticks around, probably because it doesn't cause any harm — in fact, it serves a more minor function as the anchor point for certain other muscles.
Oh, this can't be happening to me! Her eyes went to the stubby hairy hand on the floor so close to the sewing box and suddenly she was vitally alive again, vitally glad with a cool tigerish joy.
He was about middle height with sandy hair, a stubby mustache, a very red face and extremely cold blue eyes with faint white wrinkles at the corners that grooved merrily when he smiled.
A hand had appeared amongst the flames, groping as though to catch hold of something; a stubby, short-fingered hand covered in ugly old-fashioned rings.
Grasshoppers have short, stubby antennae, while crickets have significantly thinner and longer antennae — sometimes longer than the length of their entire bodies!
No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
The nose was stubby and shapeless, the mouth lopsided and full of misshapen yellow teeth the size of half-bricks; the small eyes, were a muddy greenish-brown and just now were half-gummed together with sleep.