malformation

3 definitions found

malformation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Malformation \Mal`for*ma"tion\, n. [Mal- + formation.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

malformation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  malformation
      n 1: an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen
           or malformed [syn: deformity, malformation,
           misshapenness]
      2: something abnormal or anomalous [syn: malformation,
         miscreation]

malformation - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "malformation":
     absurdity, anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, bowlegs, camelback,
     cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement,
     deformation, deformity, disfigurement, distortion, fantasticality,
     flatfoot, freakishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, harelip,
     humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis,
     malconformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity,
     monstrousness, mutilation, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity,
     quaintness, queerness, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness,
     swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, truncation,
     valgus, weirdness, wryneck