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HUMAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is downloaded weekly from http://compbio.charite.de/hudson/job/hpo/lastStableBuild/artifact/ontology/release/hp.obo. The file downloaded is considered the "last stable build" available for the ontology. For more about the HPO, view their website at http://www.human-phenotype-ontology.org/.

Term:Failure to thrive
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Accession:HP:0001508 term browser browse the term
Definition:Failure to thrive (FTT) refers to a child whose physical growth is substantially below the norm.
Comment:Although there is no clear consensus on the exact definition of FTT, it is usually diagnoses in a child growing below the 3rd percentile or in a child whose decreased growth has cross two major growth percentiles (for example, from above the 75th percentile to below the 25th percentile).
Synonyms:exact_synonym: Faltering weight;   Postnatal failure to thrive
 broad_synonym: Undergrowth
 related_synonym: Poor weight gain
 alt_id: HP:0001535;   HP:0008853;   HP:0008878;   HP:0008916
 xref: SNOMEDCT_US:36440009;   SNOMEDCT_US:432788009;   UMLS:C0231246;   UMLS:C2315100



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  Human phenotype 0
    Phenotypic abnormality 0
      Growth abnormality 0
        Abnormality of body weight 0
          Decreased body weight 0
            Failure to thrive 0
              Failure to thrive in infancy 0
              Failure to thrive secondary to recurrent infections 0
              Severe failure to thrive 0
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