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Birth defects may result in disabilities that may be physical, intellectual, or developmental. [2] The disabilities can range from mild to severe. [6] Birth defects are divided into two main types: structural disorders in which problems are seen with the shape of a body part and functional disorders in which problems exist with how a body part ...
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The incidences reported below are from the full report, though the rates may vary in different populations. [2] Blood cell disorders. Sickle cell anemia (Hb SS) > 1 in 5,000; among African-Americans 1 in 400; Sickle-cell disease (Hb S/C) > 1 in 25,000; Hb S/Beta-Thalassemia (Hb S/Th) > 1 in 50,000; Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism
A caul is a piece of membrane that can cover a newborn's head and face. [1] Birth with a caul is rare, occurring in less than 1 in 80,000 births. [2] The caul is harmless and is immediately removed by the attending parent, physician, or midwife upon birth of the child.
Complete trisomy 8 causes severe abnormalities on the developing fetus and can be a cause of miscarriage. [2] [3] Complete trisomy 8 is usually a gestational lethal condition, whereas trisomy 8 mosaicism is less severe and individuals with a low proportion of affected cells may exhibit a comparatively mild range of physical abnormalities and developmental delay. [4]
If these tissues fail to meet, a gap appears where the tissues should have joined (fused). This may happen in any single joining site, or simultaneously in several or all of them. The resulting birth defect reflects the locations and severity of individual fusion failures (e.g., from a small lip or palate fissure up to a completely malformed face).
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See Triplet-birth with Uterus didelphys for a case of a woman having spontaneous birth in both wombs with twins. Class IV— Bicornuate uterus (uterus with two horns). Only the upper part of that part of the Müllerian system that forms the uterus fails to fuse, thus the caudal part of the uterus is normal, the cranial part is bifurcated.