Glossary for 49,XXXXX syndrome

• Failure to thrive: Slow growth or inadequate weight gain of an infant or child.
• Fetal Growth Retardation: Impaired growth of the fetus due to any cause. Causes include maternal cyanotic heart disease, chronic maternal hypertension, placental abnormalities and multiple births.
• Genetic Disease: Any disease that is handed down to oneself through the chromosomes of ones parents
• Low nasal bridge: Low nasal bridge refers to an unusually low uppermost boney part of the nose.
• Mental problems: Symptoms affecting judgement, thought or intelligence.
• Microcephaly: Small head circumference
• Neck symptoms: Symptoms affecting the neck
• Short stature: A rare syndrome characterized mainly by the association of short stature, Pierre Robin sequence, cleft mandible, hand anomalies and clubfoot.
• Small head: The occurrence of a head which is smaller than normal
• Women-only conditions: Conditions affecting women (females), but not males.
• Womens health conditions: Medical conditions related to women's health.

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