VACTERL
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English
Etymology
Initialism (see below).
Proper noun
VACTERL
- (medicine) Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together).
- 2014, Richard J. Martin, Avroy A. Fanaroff, Michele C. Walsh, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1213:
- Although a single pathogenetic mechanism has not been identified to tie all the manifestations of VACTERL together, recognition of this association is helpful in caring for the neonate and facilitating multidisciplinary care and follow-up.