malformed

[ mal-fawrmd ]

adjective

Origin of malformed

First recorded in 1810–20; mal- + formed

Baby Doe, born in 1982 in Indiana with Down syndrome, Trisomy 21, and a malformed esophagus, required surgery to allow water and nutrients to reach his stomach.
I'm a Doctor Who Cares for Newborns. I’m Nervous After the End of Roe | Rachel Fleishman | July 8, 2022 | Time
Those females are sterile, and they cannot bite people with their malformed mouthparts.
Who decides whether to use gene drives against malaria-carrying mosquitoes? | Tina Hesman Saey | June 3, 2022 | Science News
Last month, biomedical company Intellia reported promising results from a phase one trial of a CRISPR therapy that treats a rare disease caused by malformed proteins in the liver.
Redesigned CRISPR Gene Editing Tool Is 4,000 Times Less Error-Prone | Edd Gent | March 28, 2022 | Singularity Hub
Existing drugs, approved by the FDA in 2018, silence the mRNA that produces the malformed thyretin protein, instead of altering its gene.
Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection | Jason Dorrier | July 1, 2021 | Singularity Hub
He said he was stepping down to join his wife in Maine, where she has been helping their daughter’s family care for a 2-year-old grandson born with a malformed heart.
Montgomery County taps interim leader for Maryland school system | Donna St. George | March 11, 2021 | Washington Post

It can be shocking at first—the copious amounts of nudity, ostentation, “O” faces, all twisted, layered, sometimes even malformed.
Erotic Embroidery | Rachel Wolff | May 20, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
If from any cause the new being is seriously malformed or diseased, it is a common thing for the dam to miscarry.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas Inman
What I found was that it had been twisted and malformed from birth, so that it was a center of continuous infection.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
Assembled there they look like a lot of malformed giants, with oversized heads sunk curiously in their shoulders.
Egypt (La Mort De Philae) | Pierre Loti
His right arm is malformed, and only a very strong man, with two strong arms, could have performed that feat.
The Shrieking Pit | Arthur J. Rees
Excepting between death and slavery, there was no choice for the weak or the malformed.
The Aztec Treasure-House | Thomas Allibone Janvier

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