CH 23 Flashcards
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congenital absence of one or both eyes
Anophthalmia
Short broad head because of premature suture fusion
Brachycephaly
Congenital anomalaies of the head cause by teratogens or development disruptions of the nervous system
Cebocephaly
Central portion of the cerebellum between the hemispheres
Vermis
Substance that interferes with embryonic development
Teratogen
Toward the cephalic/head end
Rostral
Posterior displacement of the maxilla and mandible
Retrognathia
Disease characteristic
Pathognomonic
Graph
Nomogram
Nostrils
Nare
Either the rostral or caudal end of the neural tube
Neuropore
Dilatation or distention of a hollow structure
Ectasia
Malformation of an organ or structure
Dysmorphic
Abnormally formed organs
Dysgenesis
Long narrow head
Dolichocephaly
Congenital brain anomaly resulting from a migrational defect of the occipital horns of the lateral ventricles leading to ventricular enlargement
Colpocephaly
The choroid plexus invaginates into the
Ventricles
The mentencephalon and myelencephalon are part of the
Rhombencephalon
The corpus callosum, cerbellar vermis, sulci, gyri, migration of the germinal matric, and myelination develop after
15 weeks gestation
BPD is measured at the level of the __ and columns of the fornix
Thalami
What is the alternative measurement to the BPD
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 noted with a cleft palate or cleft lip is
Club foot