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Old 10-26-2012, 02:30 PM
shirley1929 shirley1929 is offline
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel View Post
Oh, I agree. We have to start somewhere. At least mongoloids isn't common terminology anymore. There is a push in medicine to stop the use of eponyms.
I think this will be a harder one to get rid of. As I understand it, there are several Trisomy versions, right? So trying to remember that 21 is the one that was previously known as Down's and that 13 is Patau (sp?) etc... is going to be too hard for the general public. They're going to need a different name to define them.
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