holoprosencephaly

holoprosencephaly
A congenital disorder involving insufficient division of the lobes of the brain during fetal development, resulting in skull and facial deformities ranging from minor cleft lip problems to cyclopia, in which a single eye develops where the nose would normally be.
See Also: alobar, semilobar, lobar, premaxillary agenesis, cyclopia, ethmocephaly, cebocephaly

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