craniotelencephalic dysplasia

premature closure of some of the cranial sutures (see craniosynostosis syndrome) accompanied by protrusion of the frontal skull bone and intellectual disability, with or without encephalocele (brain herniation through the skull).

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March 17th 2025

z -score transformation

a statistical procedure used to convert raw data into z scores, dimensionless quantities that may be interpreted without reference to the original units of measurement. It is performed by subtracting the reference value (the sample average) from each data point and dividing the difference by the standard deviation of the sample.