| NOUN | an anencephaly | anencephalies | |
| SYNO | anencephalia | anencephaly |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- It's deficiency in humans causes anencephaly, a severe form of anterior neural tube defect that curtails brain development.
- This condition is usually found in embryos as an early stage of anencephaly.
- The most severe type of anencephaly where area cerebrovasculosa and area medullovasculosa fill both cranial defects and the spinal column.
- A presence of brain tissue will confirm the diagnosis of acrania and differentiate it from other developmental problems such as anencephaly.
- Recent animal models indicating a possible association of TEAD2 with anencephaly.
- Caplan, in an article on the ethics of organ donation by infants with anencephaly – born essentially without a brain – before physical death, raises some points about the Argument from Marginal Cases.
- Failure of the lamina terminalis to close properly at this stage of development will result in anencephaly or meroencephaly.
- As reported by Bruno Reversade and colleagues, the inactivation of the NUAK2 kinase in humans leads to anencephaly.
- It has been suggested by the dissenting judge in the case that the court should have used the condition anencephaly as the basis of the case, not the recurring subsidiary symptoms of respiratory distress.
- The first ultrasound scan revealed that their daughter had been diagnosed as having anencephaly and the parents were asked if they wished to abort.
- Abortion allowed in case of anencephaly.
- Legal abortion is now allowed if the mother's life is in danger, and also in cases of fetal abnormalities that makes it not viable after birth (such as anencephaly) or produce difficulties for mother to take care of it after birth, such as major thalassemia or bilateral polycystic kidney disease.
- Rohan and his wife, Amie, had twin daughters, Bella and Willow, born on 12 April 2018. Willow died five hours after birth from anencephaly.
- Craniorachischisis is a variant of rachischisis that occurs when the entire spinal cord and brain are exposed – simultaneous complete rachischisis and anencephaly.
- Other examples involve atopic diseases such as eczema or dermatitis;spina bifida (open spine), and anencephaly (open skull).
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