Of all of the medical maladies plaguing the world, perhaps there are none so sad as birth defects, forcing those afflicted to deal with the deleterious conditions from the day they are born. The ...

Teratology is the study of abnormalities of physiological development. Other than studying human congenital abnormalities, it analyzes other non-birth developmental stages, including puberty, and also ...

It was concerning to read Henry and colleagues’ study on the poor adherence to pregnancy prevention while women are taking isotretinoin.1 This drug was first licensed in 1982 in the United States, and ...

Teratogenic exposures are those that can cause an embryo or fetus to develop abnormally. Several factors determine whether an agent is teratogenic, including the gestational timing of the exposure, as ...

The potential of in utero exposure to fluconazole to initiate teratogenesis was analyzed in ICR (CD-1) mice. Developmental phase specificity was determined by ...

JANE M. OPPENHEIMER, SOME HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TERATOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 42, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL 1968), pp. 145-159 ...

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From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, 'monstrous births' -- malformed or anomalous fetuses -- were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an ...

The developing teleost embryo is a highly complex and balanced physico-chemical system in equilibrium with its environment. Even slight alterations of the external aquatic environment, or a ...

IN the volume before us we have the most complete account that has yet been given to the public of the various aberrant forms which are from time to time presented by the different organs of which ...

The importance of congenital malformations as a cause of death and disease in infants and children has become more apparent in the past few decades as other causes of death in children have been ...