Word: hydrocephalus
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...They could now portray the Pharaoh and the voluptuous Nefertiti (who may have shared the throne with him) in a far more casual, realistic way. Akhenaten's cone-shaped head, elongated face, fingers and toes, pot belly and flaring hips have led some scholars to suggest that he had hydrocephalus or Marfan's syndrome...
...sperm's DNA with a nontoxic light-sensitive dye, the Virginia scientists were able to sort sperm by gender--with a high rate of success--before using them in artificial insemination. The first couple to use the technique was looking to escape a deadly disease known as X-linked hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, which almost always affects boys...
...most rudimentary level, the videotape machine enables a psychologist to record a baby's wriggling and demonstrate that it often moves in rhythm with its mother's voice. At the most complex levels, surgeons at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago can diagnose prenatal hydrocephalus (a brain-damaging excess of cerebrospinal fluid) in a fetus, then introduce a plastic tube into the mother's uterus and into the fetus' head to drain off the surplus fluid inside its brain. Guiding many of these technological innovations is the ubiquitous computer, which can synthesize a mother...
Only three days after the San Francisco operation, according to the Denver Post, surgeons at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center used a drainage tube to treat hydrocephalus, a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain cavity, in a 24-week-old fetus. Says Harrison: "The next step is opening the uterus, fixing something and closing it back up again to allow the baby to develop normally...
...most obvious deformities result from chromosomal abnormalities. Down's syndrome, or mongolism, which occurs once in every 600 births, is caused when one set of chromosomes occurs as a triplet rather than a pair. Hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, and polydactyly, the presence of extra fingers or toes, also result from faulty genes...