title: Holoprosencephaly: A mythologic and teratologic distillate.
abstract: This review of holoprosencephaly provides a mythologic and teratologic distillate of the subject under the following headings: Babylonian tablets; Greek mythology; pictures from the 16th through the 20th Centuries; 19th Century teratology; history of more modern concepts and their terminologies; and ocean-going ships named "Cyclops."
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. mmichael.cohenjr@gmail.com
authors.forename: M Michael
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018645:Greek World; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D016142:Holoprosencephaly / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009229:Mythology; D018600:Teratology / Q000266:history