Definition of "dwarfism"

Studies of disproportionate dwarfisms in animals have revealed the importance of core proteins an sulfation in the development of cartilage.

1985, J. D. Esko et al., “Animal Cell Mutants Defective in Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 82, number 10, page 3200

Childish, childish to the core: that's why they're so good at nursing, they're arrested in a state of permanent intellectual dwarfism themselves!

2011, Peter Burt, Fables, page 124