Metatropic dysplasia (MTD) is a rare spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia characterized by a long trunk and short limbs in infancy followed by severe and progressive kyphoscoliosis causing a reversal in proportions during childhood (short trunk and long limbs) and a final short stature in adulthood.

An anomalous radiographic appearance of the developing pelvis, in which the greater ischiadic noth (incisura ischiadica major) is shallow and the pelvis takes on the appearance said to resemble a halberd (a weapon especially of the 15th and 16th centuries consisting typically of a battle-ax and pike mounted on a handle).