malposition
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Gerster reports a rare form of imperforate anus, with malposition of the left ureter, obliteration of the ostia of both ureters, with consequent hydronephrosis of a confluent kidney.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The deviations from the ordinary direction of organs partake for the most part more of the nature of variations than of absolute malposition or displacement.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
In such case that is sufficient to overcome the muscular contraction and correct the overlapping or other malposition of the bones.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Perhaps, in four cases out of five, this breaking down is one of the symptoms of a displacement of the internal organs,—a malposition, in other words, of the uterus.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
The causes of difficult labor, according to Gilbert, are malposition, dropsy, immoderate size and death of the fetus, debility of the uterus and obstruction of the maternal passages.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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