Anomaly - Biology

Biology

See also: List of congenital disorders and List of genetic disorders

• Congenital anomaly, popularly referred to as a birth defect, a disorder present at birth, the result of an inherited gene mutation, an error during morphogenesis or fetal development, or an environmental factor
  • Physical anomaly, a deformation of an anatomical structure
    • Congenital vertebral anomaly, any of several malformations of the spine in animals and infants
    • Collie eye anomaly, congenital, inherited, bilateral eye disease of dogs involving the retina, choroid, and sclera
    • Coronary artery anomaly, congenital abnormality in the coronary anatomy of the heart
    • Ebstein's anomaly, congenital heart defect in which the opening of the tricuspid valve is displaced towards the right ventricle of the heart
    • Uhl anomaly, very rare congenital heart disease with a partial or total loss of the myocardial muscle in the right ventricle
  • Genetic anomaly, a disorder whose ultimate cause is a genetic or chromosomal mutation
  • Chromosome anomaly, a disorder whose ultimate cause involves a structural error in a chromosome or an atypical number of chromosomes
• Teratology, the study of all developmental anomalies