Teratology in the Twentieth Century: Congenital Malformations in Humans and How their Environmental Causes were EstablishedElsevier, 2003 M06 6 - 166 pages This book is an an up-to-date survey and summary of present knowledge and future expectations regarding the environmental causes of congenital malformations in human beings, beginning with the earliest discoveries of the 20th century up to the latest ideas and problems at its end, presents views and comments on the progress made over the century in understanding human prenatal maldevelopment. |
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... known. So little is known, perhaps is knowable, that it often seems we are desperate to find answers to long-sought questions and are precipitate in promulgating them. They pour out and are given prominence in the science sections of ...
... known. So little is known, perhaps is knowable, that it often seems we are desperate to find answers to long-sought questions and are precipitate in promulgating them. They pour out and are given prominence in the science sections of ...
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... known), cleft palate, etc., some of the most extensive of them published beginning in 1912 by the Galton Laboratory in London in its Treasury of Human Inheritance, edited overall by Karl Pearson. While some of these aberrations were ...
... known), cleft palate, etc., some of the most extensive of them published beginning in 1912 by the Galton Laboratory in London in its Treasury of Human Inheritance, edited overall by Karl Pearson. While some of these aberrations were ...
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... known as minor congenital malformations or anomalies, come in many forms, but are usually of little or no medical or cosmetic consequence. Depending on what is considered a minor malformation (since there is little consensus here) and ...
... known as minor congenital malformations or anomalies, come in many forms, but are usually of little or no medical or cosmetic consequence. Depending on what is considered a minor malformation (since there is little consensus here) and ...
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... known through early experiments with embryos of rodents, birds, amphibians, and other laboratory creatures, a list hardly enlarged upon even today. An addition to this overall scheme was offered by Penrose (1951) with a theoretically ...
... known through early experiments with embryos of rodents, birds, amphibians, and other laboratory creatures, a list hardly enlarged upon even today. An addition to this overall scheme was offered by Penrose (1951) with a theoretically ...
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... known author's “what's in a name?” Thus, the name “teratology,” by which the science of congenital malformations is called by its past and recent history, informs us of the breadth and depth of the phenomena it has set itself to ...
... known author's “what's in a name?” Thus, the name “teratology,” by which the science of congenital malformations is called by its past and recent history, informs us of the breadth and depth of the phenomena it has set itself to ...
Contents
CHAPTER 12 SURVEILLANCE OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 181 |
CHAPTER 13 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS | 182 |
CHAPTER 14 HUMAN DISEASE AS TERATOGEN | 185 |
CHAPTER 15 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS | 197 |
CHAPTER 16 DISEASE MEDICATION AND TERATOGENESIS | 210 |
CHAPTER 17 FOLIC ACID AND HUMAN MALFORMATIONS | 224 |
CHAPTER 18 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION DURING PREGNANCY | 237 |
CHAPTER 19 THE ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THE EXPECTATION | 255 |
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CHAPTER 10 TESTING FOR TERATOGENICITY | 173 |
CHAPTER 11 TERATOLOGICAL DETOURS | 175 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 256 |
INDEX | 283 |
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