| 1. | fetal alcohol syndrome. |
| 2. | Foreign Agricultural Service. |
| free alongside ship: without charge to the buyer for goods delivered alongside ship. |
[fah] 
| the twentieth letter of the Arabic alphabet. |
| a variable cluster of birth defects that may include facial abnormalities, growth deficiency, mental retardation, and other impairments, caused by the mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. Abbreviation: FAS |
| fa (fä) n. Music The fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.] |
| FAS abbr.
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| fetal alcohol syndrome n. Abbr. FAS A pattern of birth defects occurring as a result of excessive alcohol consumption by the mother during pregnancy and characterized by growth retardation, cranial, facial, or neural abnormalities, and developmental disabilities. |
fetal alcohol syndrome n.
A complex of birth defects including cardiac, cranial, facial, or neural abnormalities and physical and mental growth retardation, occurring in an infant due to excess alcohol consumption by the mother during pregnancy.
| fetal alcohol syndrome (fē'təl) Pronunciation Key
A syndrome of congenital defects caused by maternal alcohol abuse during pregnancy and characterized by any of various abnormalities, including growth and mental retardation, cranial and facial malformations, and cardiac defects. |
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1. Frankenstein Cross Assemblers. A reconfigurable assembler package, especially suited for 8-bit processors, consisting of a base assembler module and a yacc parser, for each microprocessor, to handle mnemonics and addressing. Second party parser modules available from many sites.
Base assembler and yacc parser modules by Mark Zenier. FTP: ftp.njit.edu/pub/msdos/frankasm/frankasm.zoo.
2. FAS. A general purpose language sponsored by the Finnish government in the 70's and 80's.
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