Word: harelips
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...native land. With a brush dipped in fantasy, he painted its tangled forests, soaring mountains and garish carnivals. In 1940 President Juscelino Kubitschek, who was then mayor of Belo Horizonte, set up an art school and made him a star instructor. But Guignard, bubbling over and chattering through his harelip, either drank up or gave away everything he made. He once traded a painting for a necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes...
...previous 2,500 years. Except for specialized and usually local deficiencies in the diet, such as iodine, malnutrition is now known not to be a major cause of malformations. Stress and strain on the mother play a role in some birth defects (they have been blamed for harelip and cleft palate), but just what is far from clear...
...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...