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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Etymology
Origin of teratology
Example Sentences
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In 1829 he delivered for his father the second part of a course of lectures on ornithology, and during the three following years he taught zoology at the Ath�n�e, and teratology at the �cole pratique.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
In 1818 he began to discuss philosophical anatomy, the doctrine of homologies; he also studied the embryology of the mammals, and was the founder of teratology.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Pare appends an illustration, which is, perhaps, one of the most familiar in all teratology.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
This mode of union belongs, perhaps, rather to the domain of pathology than of teratology.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
While, therefore, teratology may be an unsafe guide in strictly artificial schemes, it is obvious that its teachings should have great weight in all philosophical systems of classification.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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