在wiki上查Psychosocial Dwarfism，里面有一类侏儒症的成因就是因为孩子小时候遭受虐待或者精神上被忽视。所以abuse dwarfism syndrome 应该是Psychosocial Dwarfism（心理社会型侏儒症）的一种。
这个网页更是将abuse dwarfism syndrome 和psychosocial dwarfism 等同起来：
http://archpedi.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/131/5/508
所以我觉得翻译成（虐待性）心理社会型侏儒症能够体现病症的成因，病症的性质，同时也很保险。如果翻译成虐待型侏儒症，我总是觉得很怪。
一孔之见。

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/a/abuse_dwarfism_syndrome/intr...
Abuse dwarfism syndrome: Retarded growth, intelligence and social behavior due to child abuse.

child Abuse =虐兒; 虐童
dwarfism syndrome = 侏儒症

Apparently, there are many more types of dwarfism syndromes. There are Laron-type Dwarfism Phenotypic Syndrome, Silver-Russell syndrome , etc.


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Note added at 11 hrs (2010-01-13 13:01:15 GMT)
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虐待性侏儒症 is more loyal to source text.

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Note added at 1 day30 mins (2010-01-14 01:45:09 GMT)
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Synonymous terms for psychosocial drawfism(心理社会型侏儒症):
--- Psychogenic dwarfism(心因性侏儒症)
--- Kaspar Hauser syndrome（卡斯帕荷伯症候群）
---deprivation dwarfism (剥夺性侏儒症）
--- stress dwarfism(心理压力性侏儒症)
--- abuse dwarfism(虐待性侏儒症）
--- psychosocial short stature(心理障碍性矮小)

The syndrome of abuse dwarfism （psychosocial dwarfism or reversible hyposomatotropism）.