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A developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye
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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 ...
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n. a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye
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n. (context medicine English) A congenital abnormality in which the orbits of the eye do not divide to form separate sockets
Usage examples of cyclopia.
For instance, lithium salts easily induced cyclopia, a single central eye, in fish embryos.