See Also: Neural tube defect(health)
neural tube defect(medicine)
Defect, neural tube(health)
neural tube defect(encyclopedia)
indians, south american(medicine)
neural tube(medicine)
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alar plate of neural tube(medicine)
ventral plate of neural tube(medicine)
basal lamina of neural tube(medicine)

indians, south american (medicine) and neural tube defect (medicine)


indians, south american (medicine)


indians, south american


An ethnic group belonging to the mongoloid racial stock in south america.


neural tube defect (medicine)


neural tube defect
<neurology, paediatrics> Abnormal development during embryonic life of the neural tube producing congenital malformations of the nervous system due to closure failure of the neural tube.

The structure gives rise to the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and failure to close results in anencephaly (absence of the cranial vault and absence of most or all of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain) and spina bifida or meningomyelocele (open spina with exposure and protusion of the spinal cord).

The risk of neuroal tube defects can be decreased by the mother taking folic acid during Pregnancy.