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Antenatal Abnormality

Antenatal abnormality means a problem in the baby that starts before birth and is found during pregnancy. Doctors often use this term for a structural problem,...

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Congenital Chylothorax

Congenital chylothorax means a baby is born with chyle collecting in the space around the lungs, called the pleural space. Chyle is a lymph fluid that...

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Hemimelia

Hemimelia is a birth difference where a baby is born with the lower part of an arm or leg missing or not fully formed. Doctors usually...

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Dwarfism-Onychodysplasia

Dwarfism-onychodysplasia is another name for a rare genetic condition called Coffin–Siris syndrome. It is a disorder that affects many parts of the body, especially growth, nails...

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Fetal Encasement Syndrome

Fetal encasement syndrome, also called cocoon syndrome, is a very rare and very severe problem that happens very early in pregnancy when the baby is still...

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Benallegue-Lacete Syndrome

Benallegue-Lacete syndrome is an extremely rare birth condition that affects how the baby’s bones and skull grow before birth. It is also called a syndromic craniosynostosis,...

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Kleeblattschadel Deformity,

Kleeblattschadel deformity, also called cloverleaf skull, is a very rare birth problem where a baby’s skull looks like a three-lobed cloverleaf. This happens because several skull...

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Cloverleaf Skull Deformity

Cloverleaf skull deformity is a very rare problem where a baby’s skull looks like a three-leaf clover when seen from the front. The head has three...

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Cloverleaf Skull Syndrome

Cloverleaf skull syndrome is a rare problem where a baby’s skull grows in a three-lobed shape that looks like a cloverleaf. This happens because several soft...

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Clouston Syndrome

Clouston syndrome is a rare condition that a person is born with. It mainly affects three things in the body: the hair, the nails, and the...

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Exstrophy of Cloaca Sequence

Exstrophy of cloaca sequence is a very rare birth defect. It happens very early in pregnancy, when the baby is still an embryo. In this condition,...

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Cloacal Exstrophy

Cloacal exstrophy is a very rare birth defect. It happens when a baby’s lower tummy (abdomen), bladder, intestines, bottom (anus), and sometimes the spine and sex...

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Prieur–Griscelli Syndrome

Prieur–Griscelli syndrome is another name for a very rare disease called neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID) or chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous and articular syndrome (CINCA). It...

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Chorea-Acanthocytosis

Chorea-acanthocytosis (often shortened to ChAc) is a very rare inherited brain and blood disease. It mainly affects movement, behaviour, and thinking. In this disorder, some red...

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Notochordal Sarcoma

Notochordal sarcoma is another name doctors sometimes use for chordoma, a rare cancer that starts from tiny leftover pieces of the embryo’s notochord (a soft rod...

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