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| | DRUGS IN PREGNANCY |
 | | Teratogenesis is defined as the dysgenesis of fetal organs as evidenced either stucturally or functionally. |
 | | Fetal alcohol syndrome: prenatal and postnatal growth deficiency, anomalies (microcephaly, behavioral abnormalities, and mental retardation), characteristic pattern of facial features (short palpebral hypoplastic philtrum, and flattened maxilla), and major organ-system malformations; with age, facial features may become less distinctive, but short stature, microcephaly, and behavioral abnormalities persist |
 | | Fetal hydantion syndrome; prenatal and postnatalgrowth deficiency, motor or mental deficiency, short nose with broad nasal bridge, microcephaly, hypertelorism, strabismus, epicanthus, wide fontanelles, low-set or abnormally formed ears, positional deformaties of limbs, hypoplasia of nails and distal phalanges, hypospadias, hernia, webbed neck, low hairline, impaired neurodevelopment and low performance scores on tests of intelligence |
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