Microtia means a baby is born with an outer ear that is smaller, oddly shaped, or missing. It can be mild (a small ear) or severe (no visible ear, called ...

Microtia means a baby is born with a small or missing outer ear (pinna). It can affect one ear or both. Sometimes the ear canal is narrow or absent (aural ...

Bilateral microtia–hearing loss–cleft palate describes three problems present from birth. Microtia means the outer ear is small or poorly formed. When both ...

Bilateral microtia–deafness–cleft palate syndrome is a rare birth condition. “Bilateral” means both sides. “Microtia” means the outer ears are small, ...

Microcephaly, short stature, and polymicrogyria with seizures describes a child with three key features. First, the head size is small for age and sex ...

Diffuse polymicrogyria (PMG) is a brain-development problem in which the outer layer of the brain (the cortex) forms too many very small folds and the normal ...

Bilateral generalized polymicrogyria (BGP) is a brain development problem that starts before birth. In BGP, the outer layer of the brain (the cortex) forms too ...

Frontoparietal polymicrogyria (FPP) is a problem in how the brain’s outer layer (the cortex) formed before birth. “Polymicrogyria” means “many small folds.” In ...

Complex cortical dysplasia with other brain malformations 14A, often shortened to CDCBM14A, is a rare, inherited brain-development disorder. Before birth, the ...

Bilateral frontal polymicrogyria is a rare brain malformation that forms before birth. “Polymicrogyria” means “too many small folds” on the brain surface. In ...

Bilateral Acute Depigmentation of the Iris (BADI) is a rare eye condition where both irises suddenly lose their brown/blue/green color in patches or diffusely. ...

A submucous cleft palate is a hidden split or separation in the muscles of the soft palate that is covered by normal-looking mucosa (the lining skin). Because ...

Cleft of the uvula means the small soft tissue at the back of the mouth (the “uvula”) looks split into two tips. Many people have this with no trouble at all. ...

A disorder of written language involves a significant impairment in fluent word reading (i.e., reading decoding and sight word recognition), reading ...

A bifid palatine uvula means the little soft dangly part at the back of your throat (the uvula) looks split into two parts. Many people with a bifid uvula are ...

A bifid uvula means the little soft tissue that hangs at the back of your mouth—the uvula—is split into two parts or looks like it has a cleft. This split ...

Indentation clefting of the nose means there is a split, groove, or deep notch in the nose, often in the midline, that can range from a shallow dimple at the ...

A cleft nasal bridge means there is a visible split, groove, or gap along the top of the nose (the “bridge”) where the right and left sides did not fully join ...

A bifid nasal bridge means the bridge of the nose is split or divided down the middle. Instead of one smooth ridge, there is a midline groove or a true gap ...

A bifid nose means the nose looks “split” down the middle, as if the tip or the bridge has a groove that divides the nose into two parts. Doctors call this a ...