Maternal impression
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The conception of a maternal impression rests on the belief that a powerful mental (or sometimes physical) influence working on the mother's mind may produce an impression, either general or definite, on the child she is carrying. The child might be said to be "marked" as a result.
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See also
- Epigenetics
- Fetal origins of adult disease
- Lamarckism
- Mary Toft
- Maternal effect
- Mooncalf
- Pseudoscience
- Sooterkin
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