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A defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres
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anencephaly
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n. A lethal birth defect in which most of the brain and parts of the skull are missing; absence of the encephalon.
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Anencephaly is the absence of a major portion of the brain , skull , and scalp that occurs during embryonic development . It is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the rostral (head) end of the neural tube fails to ...
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n. a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres [syn: anencephalia ]
Usage examples of anencephaly.
But by then she was almost grateful, having learned along the way about cretinism, microcephalia, PKU, anencephaly, spina bifida.
Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.
Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire cites an example of anencephaly which lived a quarter of an hour.