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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The condition of being malformed; deformity.
  • noun A body part that is malformed; a deformity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Faulty formation; irregular or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body; a deviation from the normal form or structure either in the whole or in part of an organ. Also, until recently, maleformation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An abnormal formation.
  • noun teratology An abnormal developmental feature of offspring.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun something abnormal or anomalous
  • noun an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed

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  • This malformation is characterized by myelomeningocele and posterior fossa abnormalities, which have distinct sonographic appearances (the so-called “lemon” and “banana” signs).

    Hydrocephalus 2010

  • Living with a Chiari malformation is painful and exhausting.

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  • … [T] his rare genetic malformation is called a mirror hand.

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  • … [T] his rare genetic malformation is called a mirror hand.

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  • He had a congenital arteriovenous malformation, which is a mass of arteries/blood vessels that connect without any capillaries.

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  • Identified almost a century ago, the Arnold-Chiari malformation occurs when the bottom of the brain herniates, or protrudes, through the hole in the skull where the spinal cord descends.

    Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997

  • Identified almost a century ago, the Arnold-Chiari malformation occurs when the bottom of the brain herniates, or protrudes, through the hole in the skull where the spinal cord descends.

    Coyote Medicine M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona 1997

  • "The diagnosis is what is called a Moyamoya disease or malformation, which is just a vascular malformation of the brain," said Dr. Zulma Tovar Spinoza, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Upstate Medical Center.

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  • "To my knowledge, it is the only record of a vertebrate fossil showing that kind of malformation," Dr Buffetaut, director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France told BBC

    Boing Boing 2006

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