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
... 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 our weekly magazines and daily newspapers. How can one be ...
... 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 our weekly magazines and daily newspapers. How can one be ...
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... with.” This is equivocal since one part excludes presence before birth, while the other does not seem H. Kalter / Neurotoxicology and Teratology 25 (2003) 131–282 137 A small parenthesis Congenital means present at birth.
... with.” This is equivocal since one part excludes presence before birth, while the other does not seem H. Kalter / Neurotoxicology and Teratology 25 (2003) 131–282 137 A small parenthesis Congenital means present at birth.
Page 138
... seem to do so. Funk and Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary (Anon., 1963, p. 285) makes the latter sense explicit when it gives as its meaning “existing prior to or at birth...,” but then adds, as does The American Heritage Dictionary ...
... seem to do so. Funk and Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary (Anon., 1963, p. 285) makes the latter sense explicit when it gives as its meaning “existing prior to or at birth...,” but then adds, as does The American Heritage Dictionary ...
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... seems have largely continued so till today. An important contribution to the fabric of these outlines made by this summary was the calculation of the quantitative role of each of the etiological categories (it should first be noted that ...
... seems have largely continued so till today. An important contribution to the fabric of these outlines made by this summary was the calculation of the quantitative role of each of the etiological categories (it should first be noted that ...
Page 141
... seems, by Chaucer in 1374). It was thus to be expected of the superstitious mind, of later times no less than of antiquity, that 'unnatural' events, lusus naturae, would be taken as ominous forebodings, and thus, teras and monere became ...
... seems, by Chaucer in 1374). It was thus to be expected of the superstitious mind, of later times no less than of antiquity, that 'unnatural' events, lusus naturae, would be taken as ominous forebodings, and thus, teras and monere became ...
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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