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malformation

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mal=for=ma=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

malformationn. [Mal- + formation.].
     Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure; -- often used of body parts such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal maturation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

malformation, n. faulty formation.

Derivative
malformed adj.

THESAURUS

malformation

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

ROGET THESAURUS

malformation

Distortion

N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.


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