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- noun teratology  The capability to cause malformations ordefects to anembryo orfoetus .
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								Evaluation of teratogenicity and neurotoxicity after maternal inhalation exposure to methyl chloroform. poison prevention for Delaware, Lehigh Valley, S.E. Pennsylvania 2010 
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								Before a phase 1 study is approved, the FDA will review additional animal testing results of the vaccine's expected toxicity and teratogenicity (i.e., its ability to cause malformations in a fetus or embryo), and the detailed plans for the clinical study. Dr. Orin Levine: Race for the Cure, and the Vaccine too 2010 
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								Endpoints investigated have included subchronic and chronic changes in metabolism, histopathology, and function of most systems; reproductive effects; growth; teratogenicity; and mutagenicity. Archive 2008-04-01 2008 
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								The reality is, the feds and the wireless industry are up to their proverbial necks in liability if the potent teratogenicity of microwaves becomes widely understood. 
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								As of December 31, 2010, they had completed their teratogenicity testing, and established quality standards for this drug. unknown title 2011 
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								The molecular basis for the teratogenicity of thalidomide has finally been isolated to a protein called Cereblon. New Media Medicine LV1 2010 
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								Paxil was originally owned by a Danish company called Ferrosan, and that company did the preliminary animal studies on rats and rabbits to look at teratogenicity around 1979 and 
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								Yet nine years after he wrote the memo, Baldwin published a 1989 paper on the reproductive toxicology of Paxil in a journal called, "Active Psychiatric Scandinavia," and stated: "There appeared to be no selective effect on the embryo or any signs of teratogenicity." 
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								The molecular basis for the teratogenicity of thalidomide has finally been isolated to a protein called Cereblon. New Media Medicine tsubasa 2010 
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								The molecular basis for the teratogenicity of thalidomide has finally been isolated to a protein called Cereblon. New Media Medicine Chwirkytheappleboy 2010 
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Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus ThreatAnthony S. Fauci, M.D., and David M. Morens, M.D.
January 13, 2016DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1600297
January 14, 2016