Word: clubfooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EARLIER, NOT BETTER A recent trend toward having amniocentesis performed early--11 to 12 weeks into pregnancy instead of the usual 15 or 16--may raise the risk that the baby will be born with a clubfoot or that mom will miscarry...
...disappointed that a publication of your high standards and sensitivities would see humor in a word play on "clubfoot," a congenital deformity of the foot, by your publication of the "Club Foote" comic strip. Donald S. Hecht
...suggest at least a minor effect. The most recent study, published last month in the American Journal of Public Health, found that the children of men who served in Vietnam were 1.7 times as likely as the babies of other veterans to suffer from major malformations, such as clubfoot or serious heart problems...