public awareness. At the time, nobody was aware of the full range of possible birth defects from FAS or its rate of prevalence. Over time, as subsequent research and clinical experience suggested that a range of effects (including physical, behavioral, and cognitive) could arise from prenatal alcohol exposure, the term Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) was developed to include FAS as well as other conditions resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure. Currently, FAS is the only expression of prenatal alcohol exposure defined by the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and assigned ICD-9 and diagnoses. In fiction In Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World (where all fetuses are gestated in vitro in a factory), lower caste fetuses are created by receiving alcohol transfusions (Bokanovsky Process) to reduce intelligence and height, thus conditioning them for simple, menial tasks. Connections between alcohol and incubating embryos are made multiple times in the novel. The main character of the 2009 film Defendor is implied to have the condition. Tony Loneman, a character in Tommy Orange's novel There There, was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, which he calls "the Drome". See also Alcohol and pregnancy Smoking and pregnancy Environmental toxicants and fetal development References External links Center for Disease Control's page on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) Alcohol and health Health effects of alcohol Congenital malformation due to exogenous toxicity Teratogens Syndromes Neurological disorders Neurological disorders in children Neurodevelopmental disorders Congenital disorders of nervous system Spectrum disorders Health issues in pregnancy Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate Biology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Mental disorders due to brain damage Syndromes with intellectual disability