[
US
/ænɪnˈsɛfəɫi/
]
NOUN
- a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres
How To Use anencephaly In A Sentence
- In particular, women with a diet closely matched to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid were half as likely to have a baby missing part of its brain and skull -- a birth defect called anencephaly -- than women whose diet was farthest from those guidelines. Reuters: Press Release
- It's called anencephaly; it may be the result of B-vitamin deficiency. A reincarnation of Vishnu...
- He was born with a birth defect called anencephaly. Who Said It Would Be Easy
- Thirteen registries provided listings of cases of anencephaly or spina bifida among liveborn infants, stillbirths, and pregnancy terminations that occurred between 1988 and 1998.
- The anencephaly case was decided in 2012 after eight years of lobbying. Times, Sunday Times
- Daily supplementation with folic acid for 1 month prior to conception and during pregnancy may reduce the incidence of neural tube defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly in the child.
- Many are paralyzed or permanently impaired by spina bifida; some, with a condition called anencephaly literally, “no brain”, survive in a vegetative state. NYT: Folic Acid in Flour
- When you have organ failure or lack of organ development that is so catastrophic that the child could not be born and live a normal life or live at all, something known as anencephaly, is something where the brain just simply never develops. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2009
- The concentrations of the free amino acids in the amniotic fluid of the anencephaly fetus were raised markedly whilst those of the spina bifida fetus were lower than normal.
- The result: cases of spina bifida and anencephaly, two serious birth defects, dropped by at least 20 per cent. Canada.com