dysmorphia
noun
dysmorphic
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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
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 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
