birth defect
birth defect
Definition
birth defect
noun
any of various mental, physical, or biochemical defects present in a baby at birth
birth defect
Usage Examples
Preposition: after
- exposure: Birth defects after maternal exposure to corticosteroids: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
Converse of object
- cause: In humans, congenital LCMV infection can cause birth defects.
- prevent: Vitamins C + D Folic Acid ( folate ) is especially helpful in preventing birth defects.
- produce: Aspirin produces birth defects in primates, but not babies.
- describe: The birth defects described among Zovirax exposed subjects have not shown any uniqueness or consistent pattern to suggest a common cause.
- see: Workers in the industry are on the frontline of exposure and at risk of developing cancer or seeing birth defects in their children.
Adjective modifier
- congenital: The urge to write is like a congenital birth defect.
- serious: NTDs are birth defects occurring in the brain or spinal cord and are among the most common of all serious birth defects.
- major: Let p 1 be the true proportion of babies born with major birth defects to women who did not take folic acid.
- genetic: The aggregate effects of illnesses and long term disabilities and genetic birth defects will be apparent only 2008 onwards.
- human: Even marginal biotin deficiency is teratogenic in mice [ 17 ] and implicated in human birth defects [ 18 ] .
Preposition: in
- baby: It also causes birth defects in babies and women must avoid pregnancy during treatment and for at least a month after ending treatment.
- human: Some medications that caused birth defects in humans could be given to animals with impunity and vice-versa.
- child: That caused illness in around half our soldiers, as well as thousands of cancers among civilians and horrible birth defects in Iraqi children.
- mouse: Even marginal biotin deficiency is linked to birth defects in mice and in humans.
- offspring: This deficiency may contribute to the increased incidence of birth defects in the offspring of treated epileptic women.
- primate: Aspirin produces birth defects in primates, but not babies.
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