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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It may be expedient to do so when the object sought is one of convenience and facility of determination only, but when broader considerations are concerned, teratology must no more be banished than variation.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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)
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 Masters, Maxwell T.
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)
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 Masters, Maxwell T.
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