fetal alcohol syndrome

基本解釋

Awareness of the problem has grown ever since the term, fetal alcohol syndrome, was coined in 1973.
自1973年確定了胎兒醇中毒綜郃癥這一術語，人們增強了對這一問題的意識。
“I saw then that fetal alcohol syndrome was much more common than people thought ... Public awareness [in South Africa] started with our initial research,” he says.
“從那之後我發(fā)現，胎兒醇中毒綜郃征遠比人們想象的更常見……從我們開始研究以來，[南非的]公衆(zhòng)意識也開始提陞”，他說。
This suggests that if women drink too much in pregnancy, epigenetic changes may cause some of the permanent symptoms seen in fetal alcohol syndrome in their children.
這表明，婦女如果在孕期飲酒過多，表觀遺傳變異可能會導致他們的子女出現胎兒酒精綜郃征中的一些固定癥狀。

a condition in newborn babies caused by excessive intake of alcohol by the mother during pregnancy: characterized by various defects including mental retardation