dysmorphic
- a word derived from dysmorphia.
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Around 5 to 10 million people in the United States have body dysmorphic disorder, which includes the face.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
The issue is related to the more severe body dysmorphic disorder, which is characterized “by excessive preoccupation with an imagined defect in physical appearance or markedly excessive concern with a slight physical anomaly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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
