Chapter 21 Flashcards
What is anophthalmia?
Congenital absence of one or both eyes
What is brachycephaly?
Short broad head due to premature suture fusion
What is cebocephaly?
Congenital anomalies of the head due to teratogens or development disruptions of the nervous system
What is colpocephaly?
Congenital brain anomaly resulting from a migrational defect of the occipital horns of the lateral ventricles, leading to ventricular enlargement
What is dysgenesis?
Abnormally formed organs
What is dysmorphic?
Malformation of an organ or structure
What is dolichocephaly?
Long narrow head
What is ectasia?
Dilation or distensión of a hollow structure
What are nares?
Nostrils
What is neuropore?
Either the rostral or caudal end of the neural tube
What is a nomogram?
Graph
What is pathognomonic?
Disease characteristic
What is pluripotent?
Ability of embryonic cells to differentiate into any type of cell
What is retrognathia?
Posterior displacement of the maxilla and mandible
What is rostral?
Toward the cephalic or head end
What is teratogen?
Substance that interferes with embryonic development
What is vermis?
Central portion of the cerebellum between the hemispheres
What is the alternative measurement to the BDP?
HC
The most studied artery in the fetal brain is the:
MCA
A normal cisterna magna measurement is less than:
1 cm
The most frequent anomaly associated with cleft palate or cleft lip is:
Club foot
Fetuses with mandible anomalies are at risk of acute neonatal:
Respiratory distress
A fetal brain with no recognizable cerebral cortex and defined thalami and cerebellum is:
Hydranencephaly
