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In 1861, William John Little published, “On The Influence of Abnormal Parturition, Difficult Labors, Premature Birth, and Asphyxia Neonatorum, on the Mental and Physical Condition of the Child, Especially in Relation to Deformities,” hereafter “Abnormal Parturition,” in the Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London. In the article, Little discussed the causes and types of what he refers to as abnormal births, and theorized how those births affect an infant’s likelihood of exhibiting a deformity. Little defined abnormal births as those involving an atypical maternal or fetal presentation, such as a slow birthing process or a fetus exiting the birth canal feet first rather than head first. In his article, Little published one of the first definitional frameworks to describe a condition causing rigidity and stiffness in the limbs that is often associated with birth-related trauma, which was then called Little’s disease, but is modernly known as spastic Cerebral Palsy.
- Ellis, Brianna (Author)
- Darby, Alexis (Editor)
- Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. (Publisher)
- Arizona Board of Regents (Publisher)
- literature
- Birth injuries--Complications
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral palsied
- Muscle Spasticity
- Spasticity
- Spasticity--Diagnosis
- Abnormalities, Human
- Congenital Abnormalities
- Birth Defects
- Nervous system--Abnormalities
- Brain--Abnormalities
- CP (Cerebral Palsy)
- Cerebral Palsy, Mixed
- Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy
- Cerebral palsy, spastic, diplegic
- Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Quadriplegic, 1
- Cerebral Palsy, Ataxic, Autosomal Recessive
- Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
- Microphthalmia and mental deficiency
- Cerebral Palsy, Athetoid
- Congenital Defects
- Parturition
- Hypoxia
- Publications
- Disorders
- fetal deformities
- birth trauma
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