| agenesis | <embryology> A condition in which a part of the body (such as an organ or a tissue) does not completely develop or fails to develop at all. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| agenesis of corpus callosum | <radiology> Defect in dorsal portion of lamina reuniens, occurs about 10th - 12th week of gestation, may be complete or partial CT findings: parallel lateral ventricles, occipital horns dilated, deep falx, frontal horns C-shaped on coronal view associated with, Dandy-Walker cyst, encephalocele, Arnold-Chiari malformation, CNS lipoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| renal agenesis | <radiology> Associated with, duplicated vagina and/or uterus (mullerian duct anomaly), seminal vesicle cysts (12 Dec 1998) |
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| gonadal agenesis | Congenital absence of essentially all gonadal tissue; the external genitalia and genital ducts are female, but if interstitial cells of Leydig are present, the external genitalia are commonly ambiguous and the genital ducts are female. See: gonadal dysgenesis. Compare: Klinefelter's syndrome, Turner's syndrome. Synonym: gonadal agenesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sacral agenesis | <radiology> Agenesis or hypoplasia of sacrum, part of caudal-regression syndrome, associated with maternal diabetes, with or without inherited, possible features: absent lower extremities, bladder/bowel impairment (12 Dec 1998) |
| thymic agenesis | The absence of the thymus, which may be associated with parathyroid agenesis in DiGeorge syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |