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    born with anencephaly is usually blind, deaf, unaware of its surroundings and unable to feel pain. Although some individuals with anencephaly may be born...
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    develops. Specific types include: spina bifida which affects the spine, anencephaly which results in little to no brain, encephalocele which affects the...
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    abnormally. The condition is frequently, though not always, associated with anencephaly. The fetus is said to have acrania if it meets the following criteria:...
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    conditions. neurological abnormalities such as anencephaly, which impair the swallowing reflex. Anencephaly is failure of closure of the rostral neuropore...
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  • generally considered incompatible with life include Potter's syndrome and anencephaly. Where disorders incompatible with life are found before birth, patients...
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  • vote to legalize abortion in cases of fetuses with anencephaly, saying that children with anencephaly were biologically alive but that they were not a person...
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    [citation needed] While anencephaly experiences a partial to total lack of the neurocranium, iniencephaly does not. In anencephaly, the retroflexed head...
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  • skull. This condition is usually found in embryos as an early stage of anencephaly. As an exencephalic pregnancy progresses, the neural tissue gradually...
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    include neural tube defects such as spina bifida, encephalocele, and anencephaly. Other congenital anomalies of the nervous system include the Arnold–Chiari...
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    Anencephaly is a condition in which the baby develops with an open skull in some region. Rachischisis can develop in conjunction with anencephaly, increasing...
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    wife: twins born in 2018, one of whom died five hours after birth from anencephaly, and another born in 2020.[citation needed] Updated to the end of the...
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    kilometer (0.62 mi) of the hypocenter, an increase in microencephaly and anencephaly was observed upon birth, with the incidence of these two particular malformations...
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    Fatal neural tube defect with evident anencephaly....
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  • with other severe malformations of the central nervous system, like anencephaly, holoprosencephaly, and microencephaly. The condition was first reported...
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    neural tube defect related to but distinct from other types such as anencephaly and encephalocele. Most cases of spina bifida can be prevented if the...
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  • Anomaly Scan Fetal Conditions Placental Conditions Maternal Conditions Anencephaly Cleft lip Congenital heart defect Diaphragmatic hernia Gastrochisis Congenital...
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    occurs in combination with other congenital disorders, particularly anencephaly, neural tube defect and cardiac malformations. When present, the brain...
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    Factors that predispose to face presentation are prematurity, macrosomia, anencephaly and other malformations, cephalopelvic disproportion, and polyhydramnios...
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    venlafaxine use during pregnancy and several birth defects including anencephaly, cleft palate, septal heart defects and coarctation of the aorta. Prospective...
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  • (alpha privative) Greek ἀ-/ἀν- (a-/an-), not, without analgesic, apathy, anencephaly ab- from; away from Latin abduction, abdomen abdomin- of or relating...
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    condition anencephaly as the basis of the case, not the recurring subsidiary symptoms of respiratory distress. As the irreversibility of anencephaly is widely...
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  • persons with gestational age of 22 weeks or less, under 400 g weight, with anencephaly, or with a confirmed diagnosis of trisomy 13 or 18. Forty-three states...
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    closure of the neuropores can result in neural tube defects such as anencephaly or spina bifida. The dorsal part of the neural tube contains the alar...
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    spring of 1991 a cluster of anencephaly cases made national headlines and prompted a public health investigation. A high anencephaly rate of 19.7 per 10,000...
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    terminalis to close properly at this stage of development will result in anencephaly or meroencephaly. Mesal aspect of a brain sectioned in the median sagittal...
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    recorded in cases of sirenomelia include neural tube defects (rachischisis, anencephaly, and spina bifida), holoprosencephaly, hypoplastic left heart syndrome...
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    and caudal (inferior) neuropore closure results in conditions called anencephaly and spina bifida, respectively. Additionally, failure of the neural tube...
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    by the Supreme Federal Court, abortion is also permitted in case of anencephaly, and it may also be authorized by court order in other fatal cases of...
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    indicates a greater risk for anencephaly and open spina bifida. This screening is 80% and 90% sensitive for spina bifida and anencephaly, respectively.[citation...
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  • neurodevelopmental disorders, such as spina bifida, and the rarely occurring anencephaly, both of which are neural tube defects with malformation and dysfunction...
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