Crossword clues for cyclopia
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A congenital abnormality in which the orbits of the eye do not divide to form separate sockets
WordNet
n. a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye
Wikipedia
Cyclopia (also cyclocephaly or synophthalmia) is a rare form of holoprosencephaly and is a congenital disorder (birth defect) characterized by the failure of the embryonic prosencephalon to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities. Its incidence is 1 in 16,000 in born animals and 1 in 200 in miscarried fetuses.
Cyclopia, better known by the common name Honeybush, or Heuningbos in Afrikaans, is a genus of some 20 species of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, of the subfamily Faboideae. The description was published by Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1808. The name Ibbetsonia, published two years later, is regarded as a synonym of this genus; John Sims had commemorated the physiologist Agnes Ibbetson with this name.
Cyclopia can refer to:
- Cyclopia, a congenital disorder
- Cyclopia, a genus of leguminous plants in the subfamily Faboideae
Usage examples of "cyclopia".
For instance, lithium salts easily induced cyclopia, a single central eye, in fish embryos.