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A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetal development, resulting in skull and facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences, teratology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + πρόσω (prósō, “forwards, onwards”) (referring to the prosencephalon (“forebrain”)) + ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “brain”) + English -y (suffix denoting a condition), i.e. “condition of a whole (inappropriately divided) forebrain”. By surface analysis, holo- + pros- + encephal- + -y.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
holoprosenkefalia
— a congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain
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Polish:
holoprozencefalia
— a congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain
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Portuguese:
holoprosencefalia
— a congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain
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Portuguese:
arrinencefalia
— a congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain
