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teratology
  1. (medicine) The study of teratogenesis, congenital malformations or grossly deformed individuals.
  2. (toxicology) The study of the mechanisms, teratogenic agents, or teratogens, in bringing about malformations.
  3. The study or cataloging of monsters.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Genomics is unlikely to be of use in teratology studies because of the rapid rate of change in the developing organism.”
      “It is also forging links with medically oriented areas of developmental biology such as teratology and endocrine disruption.”
      “Discredit has been cast on teratology because it has been incautiously used.”
teratologist
  1. (teratology) A scientist specialising in teratology.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We are staffed by a multidisciplinary team consisting of clinicians, medical information scientists, nurses, pharmacists and a teratologist.”
      “Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire was the first teratologist to classify conjoined twins, using Greek etymology to describe the twins in terms of their shared anatomy.”
teratologists
  1. plural of teratologist
teratologies
  1. plural of teratology
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