In Popular Culture
The protagonist of the movie Gattaca undergoes a limb lengthening procedure, along with other extreme methods, in order to impersonate another person and thus avoid genetic discrimination.
In Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Dr. No, Dr. No alludes to using leg-lengthing to increase his height to roughly 7 feet tall as part of a larger scheme to mask his identity.
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