Ateliosis or ateleiosis is a diagnosis used in the early 1900s to describe patients with short stature.
Ateliosis literally means "failure to achieve perfection", and was used to describe proportional dwarfism.
[2] Ateliosis was reported as early as 1904 in relation to progeria, a syndrome of premature aging.
[3] According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is "dwarfism associated with anterior pituitary deficiencies and marked by essentially normal intelligence and proportions though often retarded sexual development".
[4] The physical characteristics include: normal facial features, childlike high pitched voice, proportioned body, and abnormal genitalia.