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DECUBITUS - Pressure sore or skin ulcer.

DERMATOMES - The areas of skin that get their sensation from different spinal nerves.

DETRUSOR - The bladder muscle.

DETRUSOR-SPHINCTER DYSSYNERGIA (DSD) - Failure of the bladder sphincter to open up when the bladder muscle contracts.

DISABILITY - A lifelong condition affecting important activities or functions of daily living.

DISLOCATED - The displacement of a bone from its normal position in a joint.

DISTAL - The end of a shunt catheter furthest away from the head.

DORSIFLE - A backward bending of the forefoot at the ankle.

DURA - The outer membrane of the meninges.

ENDOCRINOLOGIST - A physician specializing in diabetes, the thyroid, and the endocrine gland. Most children with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus experience delays in growth or premature puberty and would benefit from this specialist's care.

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM - A graphic picture of the electrical impulses of the brain, or brainwaves.

ENCEPHALOCELE - See cranium bifidum.

ENEMA - Installation of fluid into the rectum to empty the bowel.

EQUINOVARUS - Similar to equinus, with additional inward turning of the forefoot.

EQUINUS - Deformity of the foot in which the heel is pulled up and the forefoot is pulled down.

ESOPHAGUS - The muscular tube extending from the back of the throat to the stomach.

EVERSION - Movement of the foot in which the sole turns outward away from the midline.

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE - The ability to express ideas in words and sentences.

EXTENSION - The straightening of a joint.

FEMUR - The thighbone, extending from the pelvis to the knee.

FERTILITY - Capable of reproducing.

FLEXION - The bending of a joint.

FOLIC ACID - A "B" vitamin that is necessary to form essential body proteins and genetic materials. It promotes the synthesis of the oxygen-carrying blood protein hemoglobin.

FONTANEL - The soft spot on a baby's skull where the bones have not yet grown firmly together.

GAIT - The manner of walking.

GASTROCS - The calf muscles.

GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX - Excessive regurgitation from the stomach into the esophagus.

GENETICIST - A physician or professional person who counsels parents on the risk of having an infant with a particular inherited disorder.