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 139
... usually lethal or impaired reproduction in the days of premodern medicine and often still ordain the same fate, what this means as far as evolutionary dynamics is concerned would make for an interesting, but far-diverting, topic of ...
... usually lethal or impaired reproduction in the days of premodern medicine and often still ordain the same fate, what this means as far as evolutionary dynamics is concerned would make for an interesting, but far-diverting, topic of ...
Page 144
... usually, it would seem, since a single age group, newborn infants, is almost always the subject of malformation studies. The term prevalence is misused, however, when the group being studied consists of different age and survival ...
... usually, it would seem, since a single age group, newborn infants, is almost always the subject of malformation studies. The term prevalence is misused, however, when the group being studied consists of different age and survival ...
Page 145
... usually been in the relatively narrow range of 3% or thereabouts. The frequency found by any particular investigation, however, has been greatly influenced by biasing features and by the study type. Some of the biases lie in the ...
... usually been in the relatively narrow range of 3% or thereabouts. The frequency found by any particular investigation, however, has been greatly influenced by biasing features and by the study type. Some of the biases lie in the ...
Page 146
... usually trivial abnormality, pilonidal cyst, which suddenly “appeared in epidemic proportions in December 1940 and January 1941...[when] examination of the records disclosed the workings of a pediatric intern with an undue fondness for ...
... usually trivial abnormality, pilonidal cyst, which suddenly “appeared in epidemic proportions in December 1940 and January 1941...[when] examination of the records disclosed the workings of a pediatric intern with an undue fondness for ...
Page 147
... usually only slowly recognized cause of increases in frequencies of certain defects are changed diagnostic methods and criteria. A clear instance of this was the occurrence of a marked jump in the frequency of ventricular septal defect ...
... usually only slowly recognized cause of increases in frequencies of certain defects are changed diagnostic methods and criteria. A clear instance of this was the occurrence of a marked jump in the frequency of ventricular septal defect ...
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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