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Teratology   Listen
noun
Teratology  n.  
1.
That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.
2.
Affectation of sublimity; bombast. (Obs.)





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"Teratology" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind were met with everywhere, among individuals as well as among the organs of the same plant. Larger aberrations, spoken of as monstrosities, were for a long time regarded as lying outside the range of ordinary phenomena. A special branch of inquiry, that of Teratology, was devoted to them, but it constituted a science by itself, sometimes connected with morphology, but having scarcely any bearing on the processes of evolution ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others


Words linked to "Teratology" :   embryology


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