teratology in English

noun
1
the scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations.
Rejecting the notion that freaks were sports of nature, Saint - Hilaire argued that teratology (the medical study of congenital monstrosity) should link normal and abnormal development.
2
mythology relating to fantastic creatures and monsters.

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1. Ametrous: In teratology , without a uterus.

2. Ethylene glycol monoethyl ether and ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate teratology studies.

3. Achondroplasia (countable and uncountable, plural Achondroplasias) ( teratology ) A genetic disorder , the most common form of short limb dwarfism

4. These principles of teratology were put forth by Jim Wilson in 1959 and in his monograph Environment and Birth Defects.

5. Bump leaflets are produced by the UK Teratology Information Service (), a not-for-profit national organisation hosted by the Newcastle upon Tyne

6. Anomalous, a species of moth in the Noctuid family Chromosome anomaly, a disorder caused by a structural error in a chromosome or an atypical number of chromosomes Genetic anomaly, a disorder caused by mutation Teratology, the study of developmental Anomalies

7. In teratology studies in rats and rabbits, foetal resorptions and malformations occurred in rats at # mg kg# day-# (including anophthalmia, agnathia, and hydrocephaly) and in rabbits at # mg kg-# day-# (including cardiovascular and renal anomalies, such as ectopia cordis and ectopic kidneys, and diaphragmatic and umbilical hernia), in the absence of maternal toxicity

8. In teratology studies in rats and rabbits, foetal resorptions and malformations occurred in rats at # mg kg-# day-# (including anophthalmia, agnathia, and hydrocephaly) and in rabbits at # mg kg-# day-# (including cardiovascular and renal anomalies, such as ectopia cordis and ectopic kidneys, and diaphragmatic and umbilical hernia), in the absence of maternal toxicity

9. In teratology studies in rats and rabbits, foetal resorptions and malformations occurred in rats at # mg kg-# day-# (including anophthalmia, agnathia, and hydrocephaly) and in rabbits at # mg kg# day-# (including cardiovascular and renal anomalies, such as ectopia cordis and ectopic kidneys, and diaphragmatic and umbilical hernia), in the absence of maternal toxicity