Word: bifida
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Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...