Anomalies of the Face and Neck Crossword Puzzle

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  • strawberry: cranium shape with bulging frontal bones and wide occiput.
  • craniosynostosis: premature fusion of the skull that causes fetal cranium to become abnormally shaped.
  • cloverleaf : this skull shape is associated with numerous skeletal dysplasias and ventriculomegaly.
  • frontal bossing: may appear as lemon-shaped skull or absent depressed nasal bridge.
  • trigonocephaly: elongated forehead in sagittal plane and triangular shaped in axial plane.
  • macroglossia: enlarged tongue.
  • micrognathia: small lower jaw/chin when imaging fetal profile.
  • goldenhar: syndrome with ear malformation, anophthalmia, and hemifacial microsomia.
  • anophthalmia: absent eye.
  • otocephaly: rare anomaly with absence mandible, ears close together anteriorly and toward the neck.
  • hyaloid: artery that may be seen within the fetal eye prior to 3rd trimester.
  • hypotelorism: decreased distance between the orbits.
  • epignathus: teratoma located in oropharynx.
  • cystic hygroma: most common neck mass.
  • proboscis: elongated appendage on the front of the head.