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fetal alcohol syndrome

NOUN
  1. a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy

How To Use fetal alcohol syndrome In A Sentence

  • Lately, zebrafish has become one of the best animal models to study fetal alcohol syndrome(FAS) because of its unique characteristics compared to other kinds of models like mouse.
  • The diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome is partly based on craniofacial features which include microcephaly, telecanthus, narrow palpebral fissures, thin lips and a flat philtrum, with or without cleft lip or palate.
  • I decide to put the question to Ken Jones, the doctor who defined fetal alcohol syndrome more than thirty-five years ago, and who is now chief of the teratology division in the department of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. Origins
  • The neurocognitive deficits in fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are pervasive.
  • Lately, zebrafish has become one of the best animal models to study fetal alcohol syndrome(FAS) because of its unique characteristics compared to other kinds of models like mouse.
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is nonhereditary; alcohol causes neuronal damage and cell loss in the fetal brain through direct action as a toxin.
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