Holoprosencephaly Definition

noun

A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetal development, resulting in skull and facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.

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Other Word Forms of Holoprosencephaly

Noun

Singular:
holoprosencephaly
Plural:
holoprosencephalies

Holoprosencephaly Sentence Examples

  • Commonly, the fore-brain fails to divide into lobes or hemispheres (holoprosencephaly), and the entire head is unusually small (microcephaly).

  • Failure of division is termed holoprosencephaly (literally "whole forebrain").

  • Some cases of holoprosencephaly are caused by trisomy of chromosome 13, while others are due to abnormalities in chromosomes 7 or 18.

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