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प्रश्न
State any two symptoms of Down’s syndrome.
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उत्तर
Symptoms of Down syndrome are as follows :
1) Most children showed typical facial features with a fold of skin (epicanthal skin fold) over the inner corner of the eye. This results in downward slanting of eyelids
2) The face is typically flat and rounded flat nose, mouth open and tongue protruding
3) Mental retardation
4) Due to poor skeletal development, they have short stature and relatively small skull, the palate is arched.
5) Flat hand with characteristic crease which runs all the way across the palm (simian crease).
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