The word was coined as a scientific New Latin term in 1974 with the idea of dys- + ἀνάπτυξις to convey "unequal" + "growth", despite that to serve that intent it might better have been "anisanabolic" via aniso- + ἀναβολή (compare anabolism and anabolic).
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