Facial features particularly characteristic of the FAS child. Discriminating features (i.e., those considered definitive signs of FAS) are shown on the left side of the illustration; characteristics listed on the right side are associated with FAS but are not sufficient to determine the presence of the syndrome. Microcephaly (small head circumference) is not a facial feature per se, but a central nervous system characteristic. (Epicanthal folds = skin folds covering inner corner of the eye; philtrum = groove between nose and upper lip; micrognathia = abnormal smallness of the jaws; palpebral fissures = eye openings.)

SOURCE: Streissguth and Little 1994.