Word: harelip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like harelip and cleft palate (TIME, Sept. 17), mental retardation may show up oftener in certain families without being directly hereditary by any Mendelian pattern. Dr. Stott's theory: the tendency may be hereditary, and disease or distress during pregnancy may touch...
Indicating the confusion among the lay public and some doctors over what defects are hereditary, Dr. Kemp lists an amazing variety of conditions on which "genetic counseling"-at least some of it leading to sterilization-has been given. Among them are many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them...
...only overt illness or accident, but the intangible factor of emotional stress suffered by a woman between the eighth and twelfth weeks of pregnancy may be a precipitating factor in causing harelip and cleft-palate defects, two New Jersey researchers report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch...
...left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...