| 单词 | fetal alcohol syndrome |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfetal alcohol syndrome fetal alcohol syndrome n. Medicine a syndrome encountered in children of women who consume excessive quantities of alcohol during pregnancy, characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly, other characteristic craniofacial abnormalities, and mild to moderate mental retardation. ΚΠ 1973 K. L. Jones & D. W. Smith in Lancet 3 Nov. 999/1 A pattern of altered growth and morphogenesis has lately been described in eight offspring of chronic alcoholic mothers. We call this disorder the ‘fetal alcohol syndrome’. 1990 N.Y. Times 11 Dec. b10/6 About 5,000 babies are born each year with fetal alcohol syndrome, which can cause mental retardation. 2007 Independent 15 Dec. 34/1 Like many Aboriginal children, she was born with foetal alcohol syndrome and is, as a consequence, intellectually disabled. < as lemmas |
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