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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Page 135
... less than 1 month old, up 50% in the last several decades. Present-day knowledge of their causes is still most imperfect. To one extent or another, the cause of less than half of all congenital malformations is known. So little is known ...
... less than 1 month old, up 50% in the last several decades. Present-day knowledge of their causes is still most imperfect. To one extent or another, the cause of less than half of all congenital malformations is known. So little is known ...
Page 137
... less severe malformations, but being 'all-or-none,' they differ somehow from minor deviations. Others are even more accepting and include “even the slightest abnormality” as well as chromosomal aberrations and biochemical errors ...
... less severe malformations, but being 'all-or-none,' they differ somehow from minor deviations. Others are even more accepting and include “even the slightest abnormality” as well as chromosomal aberrations and biochemical errors ...
Page 139
... less than a certain proportion of infants (the suggested one being 4%) and calling only the less common ones defects (Smith, 1971). However, because there has been no agreement about which particular minor defects are meaningful for ...
... less than a certain proportion of infants (the suggested one being 4%) and calling only the less common ones defects (Smith, 1971). However, because there has been no agreement about which particular minor defects are meaningful for ...
Page 140
... less meaningful abnormalities, that not only diminish its usefulness to the clinician, public health worker, and epidemiologist, but moreover relinquish an important pedagogic function. Other extensive formulations have attempted, more ...
... less meaningful abnormalities, that not only diminish its usefulness to the clinician, public health worker, and epidemiologist, but moreover relinquish an important pedagogic function. Other extensive formulations have attempted, more ...
Page 141
... less than of antiquity, that 'unnatural' events, lusus naturae, would be taken as ominous forebodings, and thus, teras and monere became conjoined. However, teratology has taken on a wider meaning than its original one: “a discourse or ...
... less than of antiquity, that 'unnatural' events, lusus naturae, would be taken as ominous forebodings, and thus, teras and monere became conjoined. However, teratology has taken on a wider meaning than its original one: “a discourse or ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 6 PIONEERING WORKS | 157 |
CHAPTER 7 EARLY EXPERIMENTS | 159 |
CHAPTER 8 NEW CHALLENGES | 166 |
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 |
CHAPTER 9 THALIDOMIDE | 167 |
CHAPTER 10 TESTING FOR TERATOGENICITY | 173 |
CHAPTER 11 TERATOLOGICAL DETOURS | 175 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 256 |
INDEX | 283 |
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