Phelan-McDermid International Registry

sensitive to the touch

A booster to the DTaP vaccine. It helps prevent tetanus and diphtheria. It's given when your child is 11 years old or older and every 10 years throughout life.

interstice is an empty space or gap

Persistent prescence of abrupt, repetitive involuntary movements and sounds that have been described as caricatures of normal physical acts.

Medical term for hearing noises in your ears when there is no outside source of the sounds. They can be soft or loud.

pushes the tongue against the teeth when swallowing

The improper positioning of tongue tissue in the mouth, which restricts the tongue's free movement.

Brief seizures, usually less than 60 seconds, consisting of sudden onset of increased tone in extensor muscles.

A seizure involving the entire body. (AKA: Grand Mal Seizure). Usually involves muscle rigidity, violent muscle contractions, and loss of consciousness.

Surgery to remove the tonsils. These glands are at the back of your troat.

Inflammation (swelling) of the tonsils.

A twisted neck in which the head is tipped to one side, while the chin is turned to the other.

A rare congenital malformation in which all four pulmonary veins do not connect normally to the left atrium. Instead they drain into the right atrium by way of an abnormal connection.

Chromosomal abnormalities which occur when chromosomes break and the fragments rejoin to other chromosomes.

an extremely rare inherited multisystem