Dictionary Definition
lanky adj
1 tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a
gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into
a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly, rangy]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈlæŋk.i/, /"l
Extensive Definition
Gigantism or giantism, (from
Greek
gigas, gigantas "giant") is
a condition characterized by excessive growth and height
significantly above average.
As a medical term, gigantism refers to the rare condition of
pituitary gigantism
due to prepubertal growth
hormone excess. There is no precise definition of the degree of
height that qualifies a person to be termed a "giant." The term has
been typically applied to those whose height is not just in the
upper 1% of the population but several standard
deviations above mean for persons of the same sex, age, and
ethnic ancestry. Typical adult heights of Americans of European
descent to whom the term might be applied are 2.10 - 2.40 metres (7 - 8 feet).
The term is seldom applied to those whose heights appear to be the
healthy result of normal genetics and
nutrition.
Etymology and terminology
Other names somewhat obsolete for this pathology are hypersomia (Greek: hyper over the normal level; soma body) and somatomegaly (Greek; soma body, object pronoun somatos of the body; megas, megalos great).See also
References
External links
lanky in German:
Riesenwuchs
lanky in Modern Greek
(1453-): Γιγαντισμός
lanky in Estonian:
Gigantism
lanky in Spanish:
Gigantismo
lanky in Finnish:
Jättikasvu
lanky in French:
Gigantisme
lanky in Hebrew:
ענקיות
lanky in Indonesian:
Gigantisme
lanky in Italian:
Gigantismo
lanky in Japanese:
巨人症
lanky in Polish:
Gigantyzm
lanky in Portuguese:
Gigantismo pituitário
lanky in Russian:
Гигантизм
lanky in Swedish:
Gigantism
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
angular, bony, colossal, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, giant, gigantic, lank, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
leggy, lengthy, long, long-legged, meager, rangy, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, statuesque, tall, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
twiggy, undersized, underweight