Definitions
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- noun Failure or lack of development.
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- noun Lack of
development , or failure todevelop .
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- noun failure of normal development to occur
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other medical reasons breastfeeding may not be possible or advisable for a mother include previous breast surgery see above, nondevelopment of breast tissue, and certain rare hormonal conditions.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Of course, certain very rich countries, which became rich at the expense of the nondevelopment of the rest of the world as a general rule, had so much money at their disposal and were so afraid of communism and socialism that they tried to redistribute their available resources.
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Cretinism is an endemic disease among mountainous people who drink largely of lime water, and is characterized by a condition of physical, physiologic, and mental degeneracy and nondevelopment, and possibly goiter.
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-- Muscular atrophy associated with nondevelopment.
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Cretinism is an endemic disease among mountainous people who drink largely of lime water, and is characterized by a condition of physical, physiologic, and mental degeneracy and nondevelopment, and possibly goiter.
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Figure 177 shows another case of extraordinary atrophic condition of all the tissues of the body associated with nondevelopment.
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Figure 177 shows another case of extraordinary atrophic condition of all the tissues of the body associated with nondevelopment.
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In the first three of these only (a, b, and c) is there real sterility in the sense of the nondevelopment or imperfect development of the male vivifying element (spermatozoa).
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Who's going to assure its continued existence, for instance, getting it permanently zoned for nondevelopment, or possibly taxed low enough to encourage its future use as cropland?
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"What that means is the government can continue to spend money on nondevelopment and nonproductive areas, and if it runs up a fiscal deficit, there are foreign loans available to bridge that gap," he says.
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