teratism

teratism
Synonyms and related words:
aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, abortion, absurdity, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness, baboon, bag, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blemish, blot, curiousness, deformity, derangement, deviation, difference, divergence, dog, eccentricity, erraticism, eyesore, fantasticality, freak, freak of nature, freakishness, fright, gargoyle, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hag, harridan, heteromorphism, inferiority, irregularity, malformation, mess, miscreation, monster, monstrosity, monstrousness, no beauty, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, scarecrow, sight, singularity, strangeness, subnormality, superiority, ugly duckling, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, weirdness, witch|

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  • teratism — TERATÍSM s.n. (med.) Malformaţie, monstruozitate congenitală. [< fr. tératisme, cf. gr. terras – monstru]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN  TERATÍSM s. n. malformaţie, monstruozitate congenitală. (< fr. tératisme) …   Dicționar Român

  • teratism — [ter′ə tiz΄əm] n. [< TERATO + ISM] a malformed fetus …   English World dictionary

  • teratism — ˈterəˌtizəm noun ( s) Etymology: terat + ism 1. : anomaly of organic form and structure : monstrosity 2. : love of the marvelous : worship of monsters man s pathetic struggle up from teratism through animism and taboo and magic to our present day …   Useful english dictionary

  • teratism — /ter euh tiz euhm/, n. 1. love or worship of the monstrous. 2. Biol. a monstrosity. [1900 05; TERAT + ISM] * * * …   Universalium

  • teratism — noun Any severe congenital malformation …   Wiktionary

  • teratism — SYN: teratosis. [G. teratisma, fr. teras] * * * ter·a·tism ter ə .tiz əm n anomaly of organic form and structure: MONSTROSITY (1a) * * * ter·a·tism (terґə tiz əm) [Gr. teratisma] an anomaly of formation or development; see developmental …   Medical dictionary

  • teratism — n. monstrosity, state of having visible developmental deformities; deformed fetus …   English contemporary dictionary

  • teratism — ter·a·tism …   English syllables

  • teratism —   n. monstrosity; love of monsters or marvels.    ♦ teratical, a.    ♦ teratogen, n. substance that can cause fetal deformities if absorbed during pregnancy.    ♦ teratogenesis,    ♦ teratogeny, n. production of malformations in a fetus or of… …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • teratosis — An anomaly producing a teras. SYN: teratism. [terato + G. osis, condition] atresic t. a t. in which any of the normal orifices, such as the nares, mouth, anus, or vagina, is imperforate. ceasmic t. a t. in which …   Medical dictionary

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