Alcohol Consumption In Early Pregnancy
In 1973, Jones and Smith coined the term "
Alcohol has been found to be acutely toxic to the developing fetus.
Evidence suggests that the morphologic and functional deficits observed in children with fetal alcohol syndrome are related to two concepts - the timing of the toxic event ("critical period") and the peak alcohol concentrations ("critical dosage"). Alcohol itself is...
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