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08-06-2008, 04:15 PM
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Deformity of the Face
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.
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10-04-2008, 12:24 AM
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Re: Deformity of the Face
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. |