teratogens

It does an impressive job of blocking bacteria from reaching the fetus, but studies show that it does not block other dangers known as teratogens — agents such as radiation, pathogens, drugs and chemicals that can cause malformation of the developing embryo.

Healthy Living, For Two 2010

Many are teratogens, which are substances that can cause birth defects, deformities, or even death.

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

Many are teratogens, which are substances that can cause birth defects, deformities, or even death.

Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

The best view we have from twin studies is that schizophrenia results from both genetic and shared-environment etiological influences, with "shared environment" meaning classical postnatal environmental factors plus prenatal environmental factors such as exposure to infectious agents, macro - or micronutrient dietary characteristics, and exposure to environmental toxic chemicals, teratogens, and other assaults to the prenatal environment.

Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness 2009

I sincerely hope you're (and your lab is) making sure you're protected from possible teratogens.

Project pre-doc post-doc: The real story ScienceWoman 2007

Some people think that the body is adequately equipped for detoxification, but if it were, we wouldn't have words like carcinogen, teratogens, reproductive toxicants, and endocrine disruptors.

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs: A Toxic World? 2008

For example, Profet (1992) suggested that morning sickness may function to reduce maternal intake of foods containing teratogens during the early phase of embryogenesis, when delicate fetal tissues are most susceptible to chemical disruption.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

Some of them had come equipped with notebooks and pens, and had spent the past hour and a half writing down recommended dosages of folic acid, the names of teratogens, and suggested diets for a mother-to-be.

Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007

Some of them had come equipped with notebooks and pens, and had spent the past hour and a half writing down recommended dosages of folic acid, the names of teratogens, and suggested diets for a mother-to-be.

Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

Some of them had come equipped with notebooks and pens, and had spent the past hour and a half writing down recommended dosages of folic acid, the names of teratogens, and suggested diets for a mother-to-be.

Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007