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FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy
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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fetal alcohol syndrome" is a kind of...):
syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)