teratologic
- a word derived from teratology.
Example Sentences
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Diphallus, or duplication of the penis in an otherwise apparently single individual, is a very rare anomaly, records of only 20 cases having been found in a fairly exhaustive search through teratologic literature.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
On the other hand I have often tried in vain to win an anomalous race from an accidental deviation, or to isolate a teratologic variety out of more common aberrations.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
There is, however, one real difficulty in accepting the story handed down to us as authentic,—the nature of the teratologic phenomenon itself.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The development that their astrology had given to 'genethliaque,' or the art of horoscopes of births, had led them early to attribute great importance to all the teratologic facts which were there produced.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
This community of embryonic types and this last fact explain repetition of teratologic types or monstrosities in vertebrates.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
