agenesis
Americannoun
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absence of or failed development of a body part.
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sterility; impotence; barrenness.
noun
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(of an animal or plant) imperfect development
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impotence or sterility
Other Word Forms
- agenetic adjective
Etymology
Origin of agenesis
Example Sentences
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Born with sacral agenesis, a physical condition that makes her body different, Jones is excluded from “easy beauty,” Kate Tuttle wrote in The New York Times.
From New York Times
Cats Protection's senior field veterinary officer Fiona Brockbank said it appeared to be a case of agenesis, the failure of an organ to develop, which she and her colleagues had never seen before.
From BBC
The medical name for my disability is sacral agenesis.
From New York Times
She has congenital sacral agenesis, meaning she was born with no sacrum.
From Washington Post
Due to his missing corpus callosum, Ellis has a disorder called “agenesis of the corpus callosum.”
From Fox News
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