Teratology
Teratology
Birth Defects
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Major and Minor Anomalies
Down Syndrome
Turner Syndrome
Trisomy 13
Trisomy 18
Achondroplasia
Inborn Errors of Metabolism Causing Birth Defects
Teratogens
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How are agents determined to be teratogenic ?
Effect of Exposure Depends on Timing
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Nicotine
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Tetraclycine
Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome
Retinoic acid
Thalidomide Syndrome
Congenital Rubella
Congenital CMV
Ionizing Radiation
Maternal Hyperglycemia
Babies of Mother’s with PKU
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Threshold Effect-Multifactorial