Having short legs or a short shin bone relative to the thigh; relating to proportionally short leg segments.
From Greek brachys (short) + kneme (shin/leg) + -ic (adjectival suffix), describing leg proportions in anatomy.
Anthropologists measured leg ratios to classify humans, and 'brachycnemic' was one classification—but it varied so much within populations that it became meaningless, showing how forced categories fail when nature creates continuous variation.
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