nuchal translucency
Medicine
noun
The soft tissue at the back of the neck of a fetus as seen by ultrasound examination, thickening of which is associated with Down's syndrome and other chromosomal and developmental abnormalities; a measurement of this.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in The British Medical Journal.
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