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Holoprosencephaly: A mythologic and teratologic distillate
Author(s) -
Cohen Jr. M. Michael
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of medical genetics part c: seminars in medical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.419
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1552-4876
pISSN - 1552-4868
DOI - 10.1002/ajmg.c.30252
Subject(s) - holoprosencephaly , cyclops , teratology , cyclopia , subject (documents) , pregnancy , computer science , biology , gestation , world wide web , fetus , ecology , genetics
This review of holoprosencephaly provides a mythologic and teratologic distillate of the subject under the following headings: Babylonian tablets; Greek mythology; pictures from the 16th through the 20th Centuries; 19th Century teratology; history of more modern concepts and their terminologies; and ocean‐going ships named “Cyclops.” © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.