Congenital Abnormality
cyclocephaly
cy·clo·ceph·a·ly
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(cyclopia) Single median orbit; eyeball(s) can be absent, completely or incompletely fused. (Makris S, Solomon HM, Clark R, Shiota K, Barbellion S, Buschmann J, Ema M, Fujiwara M, Grote K, Hazelden KP, Hew KW, Horimoto M, Ooshima Y, Parkinson M, Wise LD. Terminology of developmental abnormalities in common laboratory mammals (Version 2). Part B. Birth Defects Res B Dev Reprod Toxicol. 2009 Aug;86(4):227-327.).CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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(cyclopia) A rare congenital abnormality characterized by the failure of the embryonic prosencephalon to separate the eye orbit into two distinct cavities. Facial features tend to be absent although a proboscis has been seen to develop in conjunction.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(cyclopia) Cyclopia is a congenital abnormality in which there is only one eye. That eye is centrally placed in the area normally occupied by the root of the nose.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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(holoprosencephaly type 1) The most severe form of holoprosencephaly in which there is a complete absence of midline forebrain division resulting in the presence of fused hemispheres and a single ventricle (alobar holoprosencephaly). It is mapped to chromosome 21q22.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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