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合癥這一術(shù)語，人們?cè)鰪?qiáng)了對(duì)這一問題的意識(shí)。
“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.
“從那之后我發(fā)現(xiàn)，胎兒醇中毒綜合征遠(yuǎn)比人們想象的更常見……從我們開始研究以來，[南非的]公眾意識(shí)也開始提升”，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(huì)導(dǎo)致他們的子女出現(xiàn)胎兒酒精綜合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