LOW-SET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does low-set mean? 

• LOW-SET (adjective)
  The adjective LOW-SET has 2 senses:

1. short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature

2. lower than average

  Familiarity information: LOW-SET used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW-SET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature

Synonyms:

chunky; dumpy; low-set; squat; squatty; stumpy

Context example:

a stumpy ungainly figure

Similar:

little; short (low in stature; not tall)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lower than average

Synonyms:

low-set; lowset

Context example:

a stocky low-set animal

Similar:

low (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension)

 Context examples 

It leads to a variety of abnormalities that include mental retardation, microcephaly, low-set ears, eye structural defects, polydactyly, and limb abnormalities.

(Complete Trisomy 13 Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by short stature, webbed neck, hypertelorism, low-set ears, deafness, and thrombocytopenia or abnormal platelet function.

(Noonan syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The Cardigan Welsh Corgi is a long, low dog with very large erect ears, a broad flat skull, and a long, low-set tail.

(Cardigan Welsh Corgi, NCI Thesaurus)

A form of long QT syndrome characterized by ventricular arrhythmia, muscle weakness, and developmental abnormalities which include micrognathia, low-set ears and deformities of the fingers.

(Andersen Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of diaphragmatic defects, distinctive facial features (hypertelorism, low-set ears, flat nasal bridge, and micrognathia), distal digital hypoplasia, lung hypoplasia, and brain, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular malformations.

(Fryns Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients have a distinctive facial appearance which includes low-set ears, brachycephaly, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, and mandibular prognathism.

(Craniofacial Dysostosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include a characteristic facial appearance (protuberant and low-set ears, thick lips, and flaring nostrils), intrauterine growth retardation, insulin resistance, and enlarged genitalia.

(Donohue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The program also outperformed doctors in spotting patients with Angelman syndrome and Cornelia de Lange syndrome—an inherited genetic mutation that can cause, among other symptoms, low-set ears and an upturned nose—versus other disorders, and in separating patients with different genetic subtypes of Noonan syndrome.

(Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Diagnose Rare Disorders with Just A Picture, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Abnormalities are variable from individual to individual and may include mental retardation, retarded growth, flat hypoplastic face with short nose, prominent epicanthic skin folds, small low-set ears with prominent antihelix, fissured and thickened tongue, laxness of joint ligaments, pelvic dysplasia, broad hands and feet, stubby fingers, transverse palmar crease, lenticular opacities and heart disease.

(Down Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)