Seeing your baby’s fingers or toes joined together or with an extra digit can feel unsettling at first. Syndactyly and polydactyly are conditions some babies are born with, and while they sound ...

After a baby is born, one of the first things proud parents do is count the infant's fingers and toes. What happens when those digits look fused or stuck together? Medically, that condition is known ...

Chennai: Four-year-old Preetha Shetty from Andhra Pradesh can now heave a sigh of big relief. Syndactyly, a condition in which she did not have the index finger and her four fingers were fused ...

In the largest study of its kind, plastic surgeons found smoking during pregnancy significantly elevates the risk of having a child with excess, webbed or missing fingers and toes, according to the ...

HOXD genes encode a family of highly conserved transcription factors involved in the antero-posterior patterning of the limb bud and in the specification of fingers. 1, 2 During embryo development, ...

Syndactyly is the medical term for webbing of the fingers or toes. Webbed fingers and toes occur when tissue connects two or more digits together. In rare cases, the fingers or toes may be connected ...