Malformation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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