On the problem of terminology and classification in birth developmental defects and morphogenetic variants

Abstract

Based on his own results and the latest literature evidence the author raises a point concerning the birth defects nosological forms and birth morphogenetic readings registration. Living hitherto in the literature conception differences regarding terms «birth developmental defects» and «birth morphogenetic variants» stipulate for the significance of varied approach in definition birth defect as developmental defects or as developmental anomaly taking into consideration the insight of distinction in these states. The author proposes the addition to the subsist in native literature term «birth developmental defects» Registration of birth defects according to the latest International Classification of Diseases with the register organization of all birth defects apart from the register of birth anomalies is specificated in the paper.