Meaning of MALFORMATION
| Pronunciation: | | `malfowr'meyshun
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- [n] something abnormal or anomalous
- [n] an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
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| | Synonyms: | | deformity, miscreation, misshapenness |
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| | See Also: | | affliction, Arnold-Chiari deformity, chicken breast, clawfoot, cleft foot, clubfoot, failure, monstrosity, pes cavus, pigeon breast, plagiocephaly, scaphocephaly, talipes | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mal`for*ma"tion\, n. [Mal- + forniation.]
Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or
wrong conformation or structure.
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| | Definition: | | Malformation is the abnormal development of an organ or body part. |
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity, disfigurement, distortion, fantasticality, flatfoot, freakishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, harelip, humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, monstrousness, mutilation, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness, swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, truncation, valgus, weirdness, wryneck |
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