Word: inborn
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This enzyme deficiency is caused by an inborn genetic defect that has been traced back 500 years to Ashkenazic Jews who lived in Lithuania and Poland. Because Jews usually marry within their own faith, the genetic defect-and the dread disease-are still largely confined to Jews. In the U.S., for example, Tay-Sachs occurs once in every 5,000 Jewish births, but only once in every 400,000 non-Jewish babies...
Medical researchers are finding valuable diagnostic clues in what would seem to be an unlikely place-the hollow of an infant's hand. Certain abnormalities in palm lines and fingerprint patterns can alert pediatric cardiologists to the existence of inborn heart defects, including those that develop in the womb, perhaps from a maternal infection such as rubella. Other aberrant patterns may indicate to specialists in the science of dermatoglyphics (literally, "skin carvings") the presence of Down's syndrome (mongolism) and other chromosomal disorders. Now, researchers have discovered that some unusual palm lines signal the possibility of childhood leukemia...
...Like Pelagius (another single theologian), he has not had the advantage of seeing human nature close up in the form of growing children. If he had, he would undoubtedly know that children must be taught to do right, not to do wrong. Delightful as they are, they have an inborn teacher (original sin inherited from Adam) that instructs them most effectively...
Adson still felt a need to protect patients against those medical men whom he accused of having "surgical genes-an inborn bias in favor of surgery." To this, Surgeon Kenneth W. Warren of Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most...
...mere existence of the procedure arouse false hope in patients for whom no donor heart could be found? Is it better to die after long hospitalization and distressing drug treatment, with a transplanted heart, than to die a little earlier with one's natural, inborn heart? What hope does the immediate future offer for longer and healthier survival...