. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . / Phocomelus. (Hiest and Piersol.) PLATE Acephalus. (Hirst and Piersol.) ABNORMALITIES OF THE FCETUS. 499 or vagina, complete closure of the vagina, harelip, cleft palate, theabsence of a kidney or of the womb, or the presence of double uterus,or of additional digits. In all of these, however, the individual isnot so misshapen as to fail of recognition, while the various organs ofthe body are capable of identification. The heterotaxic foetus shows, however, an abnormal arrangement ofthe various layers of germinal epithelium, whi
. A treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners . / Phocomelus. (Hiest and Piersol.) PLATE Acephalus. (Hirst and Piersol.) ABNORMALITIES OF THE FCETUS. 499 or vagina, complete closure of the vagina, harelip, cleft palate, theabsence of a kidney or of the womb, or the presence of double uterus,or of additional digits. In all of these, however, the individual isnot so misshapen as to fail of recognition, while the various organs ofthe body are capable of identification. The heterotaxic foetus shows, however, an abnormal arrangement ofthe various layers of germinal epithelium, which results in the trans-positional abnormal arrangement of organs or groups of organs. Under the head of hermaphrodite is designated a foetus containingthe reproductive organs of both sexes. While this condition is rarelyperfect, still examples where each set of organs can be recognized arenot uncommon. Monsters are those examples of abnormal development which are sodistorted as to present, in many cases, but little resemblance to thenormal human being. They are either single or composite, as they are
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