Holoprosencephaly Sentence Examples

Commonly, the fore-brain fails to divide into lobes or hemispheres (holoprosencephaly), and the entire head is unusually small (microcephaly).

Failure of division is termed holoprosencephaly (literally "whole forebrain").

Some cases of holoprosencephaly are caused by trisomy of chromosome 13, while others are due to abnormalities in chromosomes 7 or 18.