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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
Spinal dysraphism +     
Myeloschisis  
Spina bifida +   
Incomplete closure of the embryonic neural tube, whereby some vertebral arches remain unfused and open. The mildest form is spina bifida occulta, followed by meningocele and meningomyelocele.

Synonyms
Broad Synonyms: Split spine
Xrefs: Fyler:4157 ;   MESH:D016135 ;   SNOMEDCT_US:67531005 ;   UMLS:C0080178
Definition Sources: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199

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