Thalidomicde, a nonbarbiturate sedative drug given to pregnant women, was withdrawn in 1961 because it resulted in phocomelia or:

Options

A. limb defect
B. early abortion
C. erythroblastosis foetalis
D. poor development of foetus

Answer

A

Explanation

Phocomelia is a development abnormality having one or more limbs , like seal's flippers, shortened and closed the body.