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| Procedure for ascertaining a person's genetic makeup for purposes of identifying predispositions to specific heredity diseases and defects |
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| Chemical of which genes are composed that controls the functions of body cells |
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| Person's charachteristic disposition, or style of approaching and reaching to peoples and situations |
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| Extreme overweight in relation to age, sex, height, and bosy type; sometimes defined as having a BMI over 85th percentile |
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| Basic functional unit of heredity that contains all inherideted material passed from bilogical parents to children |
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| Twins resulting from the division of a single zygote after fertilization; also called identical twins |
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| Twins concieved by the union of to different ova with two different spern cells within a brief period of time. Faternal twins. |
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| One celled organisim reulting from fertilization |
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| Statistical estimate of contribution of heredity to individual differences in a specific trait withing a given population |
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| One of 46 rod saped structures that carry genes |
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| Union of sperm and ovum to produce a zygote, also called conception |
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| Fertilization of an ovum outside the mother's body |
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| Method of fertilization in which a woman cannot produce normal ova recieves an ovum donated by a fertile woman |
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| Injection of sperm into a woman's cervix |
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| Method of conception in which a woman who is not married to a man agrees to bear his baby then give the child to the father and his wife |
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| Limitation of variance of expression of certain inheritied charachteristics |
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| Clinical service that advises couples of thier probalbility of having children with particular heredity defects |
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| Prenatal diagnostic procedure in which a sample of amniotic fluid is withdrawn and analyzed to determine whether any of certain genetic defects are present |
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| Chroionic Villus Sampling |
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| Prenatal diagnostic procedure in which tissue from villi is analyzed for defects |
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| 1. Prenatal medical procedure in which samples of a fetus’ blood are taken from the umbilical cord to assess body functioning |
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| prenatal medical procedure in which a scope is inserted in the abdomen of a pregnant woman to permit viewing of the embryo for diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities |
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| Prenatal medicinal procedure using high frequency sound waves it detects the outline of a fetus and its movements, so as to determine whether a pregnancy is progressing normally. |
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| Viral disease that undermines effective functioning of immune system |
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| approximately 266 day period of development between fertilization and birth |
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| Final stage of gestation (8 to birth) characterized by increased detail of body parts and greatly enlarged body size. |
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| Second stage of gestation (2-8weeks) charachterized by rapid growth and development of major body systems and organs |
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| first 2 weeks of prenatal development; rapid cell division, complexity and differentiation, implantation in uterine wall |
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| capable of causing birth defects |
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| principal that development proceeds from within to without (pancreas before pinkie) |
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| principal that development proceeds in a head to toe direction (cranium) |
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| combination of mental, motor, and developmental abnormalities affecting the offspring of some women who drink heavily during pregnancy |
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| Natural expulsion from the uterus of and embryo or fetus that cannot survive outside the womb- miscarriage |
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| Infants born before completing the thirty seventh week |
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| Infants whose birth weight is less than that of 90 percent of babier of the same gestational age |
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| Delievery of a baby by sugical removal from the uterus |
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| Method of childbirht, uses instruction breathing exercises, and social support to unduce controlled physical responses to unterine contracions and reduce fear and pain |
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| standard measurement of newborns condition, asseses appearence, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration |
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| nuerological and behavioral test to measure nenoates repsonse to the environment asseses interative bahviors motor behaviors and response to stress |
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| Lack of oxygen which can cause brain damage |
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| Injury sustained ata the time of birth due to oxygen deprivatino mechanical injury infection or disease |
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| refering to a fetus not yet born as of 2 weeks after the due date or 42 weeks after the mothesr's last menstrul period |
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| Newborn baby, up to 4 weeks old |
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| Soft spots on head of young infant |
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| Oily substance on a neonates skin the protects against infection |
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| Fetal waste maatter excreted during the first few days after birth |
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| Mother's feelings of close, caring connection with her newborn |
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| Automatic, invoulantary innate responses to stimulation |
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| Condition in newborns caused by immuturity of liver and yellow apperance caure brain damage if not treated |
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| Electronic Fetal Monitoring |
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| Mechanical monitoring of fetal heartbeat during labor and deliveru |
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| In Piget's theroy, the first stage in cognitive development, during which infants learn through developing senses and motor activity |
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| Systematic process of planning and providing therapuic and educational services to families that need helo in meeting infants and or preschool developmental needs |
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| Physcometric tests that seeks to measure how much intelligence a person has by comparing her or his performance with standardized norms |
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| Behavior that is goal oriented and adaptive to circumstance and conditions of life |
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| Capacity of a test to meaure what is intended to measure |
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| Child copies researchers us eof objects and remebers how to repeat with out further instruction |
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| Approach to the study of cognitive development that seeks to measyre the quantity of intelligence a person posesses |
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| Play involving imaginary people on situations; also called fantasy play |
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| In Piget's teminiology, reproduction of a behavior after that passage of time by calling up a stored symbol of it |
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| Bayley Scales of Infant Development |
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| Standardized test of infants mental and motor devlopment |
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| In Piget's terminiology, the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight |
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| Home Observation for Measurement of the Enviornment. Instrument to measure the influence of the home environment on a childs cognitive development. |
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