NOUN
- a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation
How To Use Down's syndrome In A Sentence
- I thought she was beautiful, and I didn't mind about her being Down's Syndrome.
- The youngest fetus with Down's syndrome in our sample was 22 weeks old at the time of measuring.
- I explained he was Down's syndrome.
- The only caregiver was her first daughter, herself married with an alcoholic husband and mother of a Down's syndrome daughter.
- An unborn baby's developing nose could provide doctors with a more accurate method of screening for Down's syndrome, a new study showed yesterday.
- Why can't kids modeling clothes in adverts have Down's syndrome, newscasters be wheelchair users, and continuity voices be reading brail? Thank you Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, for improving the lives of disabled people
- The study will monitor how far Down's Syndrome adults begin to move away from their natural families for residential and social purposes.
- the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births
- The challenge of an antenatal screening programme is, therefore, to identify women in whom a risk of Down's syndrome is sufficiently high to justify such an invasive test and to minimise the risk of miscarrying a healthy baby.
- Many people with Down's Syndrome benefit from specialised education, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy and a dietician.