English
Noun
wikipedia|Cephalic disorders
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- A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetus|fetal development, resulting in skull and face|facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.
Related terms
Classifications of holoprosencephaly
*alobar
*semilobar
*lobar
Associated facial deformities
*premaxillary agenesis
*cyclopia
*ethmocephaly
*cebocephaly
References
NINDS Holoprosencephaly Information Page at the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health
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