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We make similar distinctions in conditions like body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding disorder: The meaning of the preoccupation determines how we treat it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Often, her work deals with the human form in dysmorphic ways, with faces that have been sliced away or figures painted stark red and white.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024

"Likewise, the identification of dysmorphic placentas may be one way to potentially identify genetic abnormalities in the almost 1 million miscarriages that occur in our country every year."

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

The fashion doll that ensured generations of girls were stricken with body dysmorphic disorder before the age of 10 comes alive in “Barbie,” a comedy written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

These clumps grew so large, particularly in the absence of oxygen, that they tugged the membrane of the red cell until the normal disk was warped into a crescent-shaped, dysmorphic “sickle cell.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee