| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Environmental Toxins and Fetal Development | The rate of cancer in children has grown 1% annually since 1970, according to a study from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. With most of these cases occurring in the first year of life, Leslie L. Robison of the department of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota declares it is quite obvious these cancers are caused by something that happened prior to birth.” (Children's Health, published in Chemical & Engineering News April 7 2003, pgs. 23-26) These ‘something’s are environmental toxins. Since the discovery that the placental barrier is not the magic protector of children it was once thought to be, evidence has been slowly mounting to mark the significance of the surroundings on the growing fetus. Classic cases which presented clear causal relationships between child birth defects and the maternal environment include the effects of diethylstilbestrol, thalidomide and congenital rubella syndrome. The first catastrophe to really induce the examination of toxins specifically was the well-known Minamata disease. (references) | ||
| Fetal development | When sperm is deposited in the vagina, it travels through the cervix and into the Fallopian tubes. Conception usually takes place in the Fallopian tube. A single sperm penetrates the mother's egg cell, and the resulting cell is called a zygote. (references) | ||
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| Fetal Development | Health | Morphologic and physiologic growth and development of the mammalian embryo or fetus. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: FETAL DEVELOPMENT | ||||
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| Environmental toxins and fetal development | 10 | Environmental toxins and fetal development | 10 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
