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Keywords: Neural, Forebrain, Skull, Stillbirth, Cephalic

Related Terms: Bulbar, Cerebellar, Cerebellum, Encephalocele, Encephalon, Epilepsy, Hindbrain, Hydrocephalus, Lobotomy, Metencephalon, Midbrain, Parkinson's Disease, Pons, Spina Bifida, Neural Tube Defects, Cerebral Palsy, Seizure, Locked-In Syndrome, Ntd, Medulla Oblongata, Meningocele, Myelomeningocele, Brain Injury, Spina Bifida Occulta, Hemispherectomy, Brainstem, Fourth Ventricle, Brain Death, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Pml, Brain Stem, Partial Seizure, Reticular Formation, Pseudobulbar Palsy, Seizures, Rhombencephalon, Closed Head Injury, Neural Tube Defect, Cortical Blindness, Craniosynostosis, Holoprosencephaly, Craniostenosis, Acquired Brain Injury, Chiari Malformation, Myelencephalon, Focal Seizure, Epileptic Seizure, Pseudotumor Cerebri

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Congenital absence of forebrain and calvaria due to failure of fusion of the neural plate.

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A severe neural tube defect with the absence of skin, skull, overlying membranes, forebrain and midbrain which leads to stillbirth or death soon after birth.

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an absence of most or all of the brain

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a developmental defect in which the brain fails to develop

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