Word: fetal
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...smoke a pack or more a day are twice as likely to produce criminally violent sons. There even appears to be a dose response: those who smoked fewer cigarettes had less violent boys. Why the correlation? No one is sure, but chemicals in smoke may somehow damage the fetal brain...
...when I get frustrated with Plato and Professor Mansfield, there's only one thing to do. Get a carton of chocolate milk, slip into my comfy, plaid pajamas with feeties and curl up into the fetal position for a nice, long...
...when I get frustrated with Plato and Professor Mansfield, there's only one thing to do. Get a carton of chocolate milk, slip into my comfy, plaid pajamas with feeties and curl up into the fetal position for a nice, long...
...more sociable anatomy, including a uterus that fluffs itself up every month in hopes of housing a baby, and a pair of spigots on the chest at which Baby eventually may dine. The surprising thing is that women are the more communistic sex, right down to the cellular level. Fetal cells derived from a woman's offspring may survive in her bloodstream decades after childbirth. What's more, the fabled liabilities of the female condition are sometimes revealed as strengths. Researchers have found that PMS--which has become a handy three-letter slur directed at the aggressive, or merely irritated...
...curious new clue to the origin of schizophrenia: kids born during late winter or in urban areas appear to be at a greater risk. What's the link? Viral infections in mothers--more likely in colder months and in densely populated areas--may have an impact on the developing fetal brain...