APA Dictionary of Psychology

a congenital multisystem disorder marked by eye anomalies, absent or extra digits, and especially skin lesions, particularly nodules of herniated subcutaneous fat in thin skin areas. About 5% of individuals with Goltz syndrome tested have been found to have intellectual developmental disorder. Also called focal dermal hypoplasia; Goltz–Gorlin syndrome. [Robert William Goltz (1923–  ) and Robert James Gorlin (1923–2006), U.S. physicians]