- Joined
- Dec 28, 2005
- Messages
- 152
- Reaction score
- 0
This is one of the more odd birth defects I have seen.
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/HumanBioogy/Cyclop1.gif
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/HumanBioogy/Cyclop1.gif
its real. it is holoprosencephaly, or a SHH mutation.Shredder said: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
jonathon said: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.
prazmatic said:You must not have seen this: http://216.39.195.236/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijd/vol1n1/harlequin.xml
Havarti666 said: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."