The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . s. Thediaphyses appear correspondinglyshort. This hyperplasia of the car-tilaginous epiphyses of fetal hfe must be related in some manner to the enlarge-ment of these portions of the skeleton in extrauterine rickets. This type of fetalbone diseases has been known as chondrodystrophia foetalis. Type D is in somerespects the converse of the preceding, and is usually known as is seated chiefly in the limbs and trunk, the head being approximately disorder is essentially defecti
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . s. Thediaphyses appear correspondinglyshort. This hyperplasia of the car-tilaginous epiphyses of fetal hfe must be related in some manner to the enlarge-ment of these portions of the skeleton in extrauterine rickets. This type of fetalbone diseases has been known as chondrodystrophia foetalis. Type D is in somerespects the converse of the preceding, and is usually known as is seated chiefly in the limbs and trunk, the head being approximately disorder is essentially defective endochondral ossification. The diaphysesof the long bones are reduced in length from a half to a third, the epiphyses beingnormal. This is the most striking feature of the disease. The individual hasvery short limbs, the brevity of the lower extremities conferring upon him adwarfish stature. The achondroplasic dwarf differs from the phocomelus monsterlargely because in the latter the affection dates from the embryonal period,while in the former it develops in the course of fetal Fig. 438.—General Cystic Elephantiasis.— (Ballantyne.) ANTENATAL DISEASES OF THE FETUS. 269 II. Fetal Traumatisms.—Injuries occurring during fetal life must be dis-tinguished from traumatisms of intra-partum origin, on the one hand, and certainaccidents which probably datefrom the embryonal period, on the other. Thisis by no means a simple matter. Fetal traumatisms may be divided into woundsof soft parts, fractures, dislocations, and amputations. Wounds.—Scars and circular defects of the skin have been found at the former occur over what appear to be badly united fractures of thelong bones, it is possible that the osseous injury was complicated at the time bya cutaneous wound. The circular defects which are usually encountered on the
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