An Odd Birth Defect

[jonathon]

This is one of the more odd birth defects I have seen.

http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Hu...gy/Cyclop1.gif

[Shredder]

Could be photoshopped but this baby too should never have seen the light of day, tragic. I guess it's not a big deal since Jean Grey disintegrated it anyway

[Blake]

Now I can't go to sleep now.

[prazmatic]

You must not have seen this: http://216.39.195.236/ostia/index.ph.../harlequin.xml

[exmike]

Originally Posted by Shredder

Could be photoshopped but this baby too should never have seen the light of day, tragic. I guess it's not a big deal since Jean Grey disintegrated it anyway

its real. it is holoprosencephaly, or a SHH mutation.

[velo]

holoprosencephaly I think....Its a possible feature of trisomy 13

[jojocola]

This makes me sad.

[jonathon]

prazmatic,

I have seen that before. You missed the point of my post. The oddness of the birth defect was the disfigurement of the face. I have a deep interest in birth defects just so you know. I posted the link because I have not seen a birth defect before where the eyes are below the nose.

This is not a thread about showing off which birth defect is the worst.

[Gut Shot]

Originally Posted by jonathon

The oddness of the birth defect was the disfigurement of the face. I have a deep interest in birth defects just so you know. I posted the link because I have not seen a birth defect before where the eyes are below the nose.

Eh, that's just a little cyclopia. The appendage above the eyes is a proboscis, which isn't a true nose. AFAIK it's formed from the anterosuperior part of the nasal cavity when the normal medial part of the nose is developmentally absent.

There's a nice little summary of holoprosencephaly here.

"The incidence is about to 6-12:10,000 among live born but 40:10,000 in embryos. Half of these are associated with trisomy 13. The sex distribution shows a female predominance."

[dnw826]

Originally Posted by prazmatic

You must not have seen this: http://216.39.195.236/ostia/index.ph.../harlequin.xml

Now I'm going to have nightmares. I can not imagine being the parent of a child with that.

[dnw826]

Originally Posted by Havarti666

Eh, that's just a little cyclopia. The appendage above the eyes is a proboscis, which isn't a true nose. AFAIK it's formed from the anterosuperior part of the nasal cavity when the normal medial part of the nose is developmentally absent.

There's a nice little summary of holoprosencephaly here.

"The incidence is about to 6-12:10,000 among live born but 40:10,000 in embryos. Half of these are associated with trisomy 13. The sex distribution shows a female predominance."

Good g-d.