Word: bifida
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Similar sequences of conception and storm produce babies with cleft palates in Maine, babies with uncompleted spines (spina bifida) in Vermont, babies with genital defects in the U. S. Northwest...
...South. Stormy Maine and Vermont presented five times as many cleft palates as did bland Arkansas and Arizona. Genital defects were excessively high in the Northwest. Testicular defects formed a track from Montana to Iowa, hypospadias from Montana to Illinois. Hermaphrodites were more common in the Northwest. Spina bifida, on the other hand, was apparently high at both the northeastern and the northwestern extremes of the U. S and in addition, formed a track from Nebraska through Missouri and Tennessee to South Carolina...
Northern children with incompleted spines usually die young. In the climatically calm South they are apt to grow up, a condition which explains the high rate of spina bifida in balmy South Carolina...