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microcephalia
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microcephalia: see mental retardation mental retardation, below average level of intellectual functioning, usually defined by an IQ of below 70 to 75, combined with limitations in the skills necessary for daily living.
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Thirteen of the high-risk infants also had major medical concerns, including intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, seizures, hydrocephalus, microcephaly, or patent ductus arteriosus; 6 others had severe meconium aspiration.
Richards of the University of California, Berkeley reviewed genetic and biological factors that contribute to microcephaly and short stature in people today.
African Americans with vitiligo, albinism, and microcephaly, proposing that they were the "missing links" in an evolutionary chain extending upward from monkey to black man to white.
 
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