How does the drug Thalidomide affect babies?
One of the biggest things is that it can make babies not develop limbs correctly. Like a baby will have a little flipper or short stump where their right arm should be. Checked and the deformed limb thing is called Phocomelia. It presents at birth very short or absent long bones and flipper-like appearance of hands and sometimes feet. Amphibian deformities often take the form of phocomelia, in which the limbs are shortened due to lack or malformation of long bones, as opposed to other forms of dysmelia such as amelia, which is characterized by the complete lack of a limb, or polymelia, the presence of extra limbs, which are often fused together.
