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Abnormal heart structure; Behavior problems; Infant death; Mental retardation; Problems in the structure of the head, eyes, nose, or mouth; Poor growth before birth; Slow growth and poor coordination after birth;
Source:ADAM
Date:September 8, 2009
The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage, stillbirth, or death in the first few weeks of life may be outcomes in very severe cases. Major physical birth defects associated wi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage, stillbirth, or death in the first few weeks of life may occur in very severe cases. Major birth defects associated with FAS are usua...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage, stillbirth or death in the first few weeks of life may occur in very severe cases. Major birth defects associated with FAS are usual...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
The prognosis for FAS depends on the severity of birth defects and the brain damage present at birth. Mis-carriage , stillbirth or death in the first few weeks of life may be outcomes in very severe cases. Major birth defects associated with FAS a...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
The prognosis for FAS depends upon the severity of birth defects and brain damage present at birth. Miscarriage and stillbirth, or death in the first few weeks of life, may be outcomes in very severe cases. Some factors that have been found to red...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Birth defects are physical abnormalities that are present at birth; they are also called congenital abnormalities. More than 3,000 have been identified.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Question: Does folic acid use help prevent birth defects? Answer: There is good evidence that you can reduce the risk of certain birth defects (spina bifida , anencephaly, and some heart defects) by taking a daily dose of 400 micrograms folic acid...
Source:ADAM
Date:September 2, 2009
Any unusual variation or abnormality in the shape, structure, and/or function of an organ, body part, or tissue is commonly referred to as a birth defect. However, congenital anomaly is the more accurate and preferred term, since birth defect can ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
Defects present at birth, resulting from hereditary factors, environmental influences, or maternal illness. Birth or congenital defects are present at birth and result from hereditary factors, environmental influences, or maternal illness. Such de...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
A congenital anomaly may be viewed as a physical, metabolic, or anatomic deviation from the normal pattern of development that is apparent at birth or detected during the first year of life. Under this definition, Mendelian genetic disorders (e.g....
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
A disorder that causes problems in speaking, listening, reading, writing, or mathematical ability. (Also Specific Developmental Disorder). A learning disability is a disorder that inhibits or interferes with the skills of learning, including speak...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence . People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three. These diff...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three. These diffi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Learning disorders, or learning disabilities, are disorders that cause problems in speaking, listening, reading, writing, or mathematical ability.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Learning disorders (LD) refer to a significant deficit in learning due to a person's inability to interpret what is seen and heard, or to link information from different parts of the brain.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Learning disorders are academic difficulties experienced by children and adults of average to above-average intelligence. People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three. These diffi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Microcephaly is a condition in which a person's head is significantly smaller than normal for their age and sex, based on standardized charts. Head size is measured as the distance around the top of the head.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 18, 2009
A birth defect characterized by an abnormally small head, a receding forehead, and large ears and nose. The condition often signals an abnormally small brain and the presence of other disorders such as cerebral palsy. Microcephaly can be caused by...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Microcephaly is a neurological disorder where the distance around the largest portion of the head (the circumference) is less than should normally be the case in an infant or a child. The condition can be evident at birth, or can develop within th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Delayed growth is poor or abnormally slow height or weight gains in a child younger than age 5. See also: Short stature
Source:ADAM
Date:February 27, 2009
Hyperactivity is a state of too much muscle activity. This term is also used to describe a situation when a particular portion of the body is too active, such as when a gland produces too much of its particular hormone. See also: Attention deficit...
Source:ADAM
Date:May 8, 2008
Mental retardation is a condition diagnosed before age 18 that includes below-average general intellectual function, and a lack of the skills necessary for daily living.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 2, 2009
Mental retardation (MR) is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as a level of intellectual functioning (as measured by standard intelligence tests) that is well below average and results in s...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Mental retardation (MR) is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as a level of intellectual functioning (as measured by standard intelligence tests ) that is well below average and results in ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as an intellectual functioning level (as measured by standard tests for intelligence quotient) that is well below average and signif...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Mental retardation is a developmental disability that first appears in children under the age of 18. It is defined as an intellectual functioning level (as measured by standard tests for intelligence quotient) that is well below average and signif...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
(Also called sociocultural or cultural-familial retardation) Mild mental retardation attributed to environmental causes and generally involving some degree of psychosocial disadvantage. The majority of persons suffering from mental retardation fal...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Below-average intellectual abilities that are present before the age of 18 and interfere with developmental processes and with the ability to function normally in daily life (adaptive behavior). The term mental retardation is commonly used to refe...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected, sudden death of a child under age 1 in which an autopsy does not show an explainable cause of death.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 2, 2009
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden, unexpected death of a seemingly normal, healthy infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a thorough postmortem investigation, including an autopsy and a review of the case history.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexplained death without warning of an apparently healthy infant, usually during sleep.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. (Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are called preterm deliveries) A miscarriage may also be called a "spontaneous abortion." This refers to naturally occurring ...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 19, 2009
A miscarriage is the loss of an embryo or fetus before the twentieth week of pregnancy . A pregnancy loss after the twentieth week is called a stillbirth.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Although it may be psychologically difficult, if a woman has a miscarriage at home she should try to collect any material she passes in a clean container for analysis in a laboratory. This may help determine why the miscarriage occurred. An incomp...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A birth that occurs before the 37th week of gestation A birth that occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy is considered premature. Although researchers have long sought a way to prevent premature birth, an estimated 9% of infants are still born ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
A stillbirth is when a fetus that was expected to survive dies during birth or during the last half of pregnancy. See also: Miscarriage
Source:ADAM
Date:May 17, 2009
A stillbirth is defined as the death of a fetus at any time after the 20th week of pregnancy . Stillbirth is also referred to as intrauterine fetal death (IUFD).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Uncoordinated movement is muscle control problem or an inability to finely coordinate movements, which results in a jerky, unsteady, to-and-fro motion of the middle of the body (trunk) and unsteady gait (walking style. The condition is called ataxia.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 26, 2009
Small for gestational age (SGA) means a fetus or infant is smaller in size than normal for the baby's gender and gestational age.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 4, 2009
Small for gestational age, also known as intrauterine growth retardation, is defined as an infant or fetus smaller in size than expected, meaning a weight in the bottom tenth percentile for a particular age. Small for gestational age is believed t...
Source:Gale Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Small for gestational age (SGA) describes infants who weigh less than they should given their gestational age (the weeks they have spent in the uterus). SGA infants can be premature, full-term, or post- term; such infants are simply not as large a...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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