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
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Dareste, who has studied the club-foot and the club-hand from the standpoint of experimental teratology, finds that in no small number of cases club-foot and club-hand result from checked development.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
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
There are certain malformations that have little in common beyond this, that they cannot readily be allocated in either of the great groups proposed by writers on teratology.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Teratol′ogist, one skilled in teratology; Teratō′ma, an anomalous congenital tumour, often containing many different tissues.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
From the beginning of the second half of the last century to the present time may be termed the scientific epoch of teratology.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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