Deformity of the Face

[chris]

Child with almost total deformity of the face; no recognisable features at all, and what appears to be one eye situated in the middle of the forehead.

[mikebob]

During development the cells that make up the nose actually moves down and 'cuts' the cell bundles that will eventually become eyes, into two (hence the two eyes). A defect in a gene prevents the nose cells from migrating downwards and cutting the eye cells. The final look of the baby's face is a large proboscus-like mass of tissue in the middle of the forehead with a single eye underneath it. The proboscus is actually what whould have become the nose. Its interesting since the mythological cyclops (with the one eye and single horn) looks almost identical.

[bugmenotplz]

Originally Posted by mikebob

Its interesting since the mythological cyclops (with the one eye and single horn) looks almost identical.

- Homer, my wife gave birth to a son, could he be in your book?
- The Odyssey? Sure. What does he look like?