Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absence or incomplete development of an organ or body part.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, any anomaly of organization consisting in the absence or imperfect development of parts. Also called
agenesia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
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- noun Any
imperfect development of the body, or anyanomaly oforganization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part
Etymologies
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Examples
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Later, it was also determined he had a rare and potentially life-threatening condition called agenesis corpus callosum, which occurs when a portion of the brain fails to develop properly.
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Christensen discovered a rare birth defect, known as agenesis of the corpus callosum, during a brain scan in the 1980s.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Peek suffered from a rare birth defect, agenesis of the corpus callosum, which basically meant that he was missing the bundle of fibers that connected both hemispheres of his brain.
Kim Peek, the Man Who Inspired Rain Man, Dies at 58 | /Film 2009
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Because of a genetic disorder called sacral agenesis, Siggins's legs were amputated when she was young.
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It must extend itself to cover horrors—ostomies and scars and flipper-hands and harelips and agenesis of the eyeballs—and it rises to every miserable occasion of the sick body.
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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Five postwar children of male Gulf War veterans had renal agenesis, a condition in which part of the kidney fails to grow and develop properly.
Archive 2003-06-01 2003
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Five postwar children of male Gulf War veterans had renal agenesis, a condition in which part of the kidney fails to grow and develop properly.
Medpundit 2003
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Developmental disorder e.g., arteriovenous malformation, agenesis
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The scholastic records of this college student with callosal agenesis were fair to good for courses that involved language and verbal facility, but contrastingly poor for subjects such as geometry and geography that involved spatial and related nonverbal faculties which we now commonly associate with the right hemisphere.
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Saul R. & Sperry, R.W. Absence of commissurotomy symptoms with agenesis of the corpus callosum.
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Agenesis, from the Greek, means “a lack or failure to generate.”
Such Perfection - Believer Magazine Chloé Cooper Jones 2020
jmjarmstrong commented on the word agenesis
JM is awed by the phenomenon of reverse agenesis and asks 'would you like to supersize that'?
March 12, 2010