On the economic side, however, the picture is less bright - Benin is severely underdeveloped, and corruption is rife.

It may have started out as a fetus, but nearly all the internal organs are severely underdeveloped.

Despite the significant progress Yemen has made to expand and improve its health care system over the past decade, the system remains severely underdeveloped.

She was mentally retarded and blind, with a severely underdeveloped brain, and had difficulty keeping down food.

The women's game is severely underdeveloped in Libya.

At the time, Mongolia was severely underdeveloped.

But successive military governments dominated by northerners have kept it severely underdeveloped, with few roads and almost no electricity and running water.

An autopsy found that the 8-year-old child died of "a severely underdeveloped brain with lesions, conditions that existed from the time of her birth."

Like most of his generation, Ron's critical-thinking capacity seemed severely underdeveloped.

The girl and two boys who died all suffered respiratory failure caused by severely underdeveloped lungs, a spokesman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center said.