microcephaly

(noun)

A neurological disorder which causes the affected person to have an abnormally small head due to a failure of brain growth.

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Examples of microcephaly in the following topics:

  • Genetic Defects from Radiation

    • In humans, microcephaly is the only proven malformation, or congenital abnormality, found in the developing human fetuses present during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
    • MRIs of a normal individual (left) and a patient with microcephaly (right).