teratology
Americannoun
noun
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the branch of medical science concerned with the development of physical abnormalities during the fetal or early embryonic stage
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the branch of biology that is concerned with the structure, development, etc, of monsters
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a collection of tales about mythical or fantastic creatures, monsters, etc
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Origin of teratology
Example Sentences
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In any case the data supplied by teratology require to be used with caution and in conjunction with those derived from the study of development and from analogy.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Penzig in his valuable work on teratology gives a list of 33 such genera, many of them repeating the anomaly in more than one species.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
From the appearance of the treatise by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, teratology has made enormous strides, and is to-day well on the road to becoming a science.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Secondly, with regard to teratology, it is notorious that similar abnormalities are often found to co-exist in both the pelvic and thoracic limbs.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
Already teratology has done much towards showing the erroneous nature of many morphological statements that still pass current in our text-books, though their fallacy has been demonstrated again and again.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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