Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Badly placed; wrongly placed.
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- adjective characterized by malposition
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Possibly some of the cures have been due to the dilatation of organic lesions, or to the crowding back of an enlarged malposed, or otherwise abnormal left lobe of the liver, which Mosher has shown to be an etiologic factor.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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