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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deformity
noun
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▪ But please hurry up if you want to avoid the nerve damage and deformity that result from long-term exposure to the germ.
▪ During the course of dissections of cadaver club feet he recognized the role of muscles and tendons rather than bones in this deformity.
▪ Gloag had a deformity of the right arm and a somewhat high-pitched voice, but overall made a forceful impression.
▪ Profound and complex neurological deficits may be found in patients with the combined deformity of atlantoaxial subluxation-subaxial subluxation-atlantoaxial impaction.
▪ The girl looked out the window and saw three women with strange deformities.
▪ The joints should be carefully examined for effusion, limitation of motion, or deformities.
▪ The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deformity

Deformity \De*form"i*ty\, n.; pl. Deformities. [L. deformitas, fr. deformis: cf. OF. deformet['e], deformit['e], F. difformit['e]. See Deform, v. & a., and cf. Disformity.]

  1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

    To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body.
    --Shak.

  2. Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.

    Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deformity

early 15c., diformyte, from Old French deformité "deformity, disfigurement," from Latin deformitatem (nominative deformitas) "ugliness," from deformis "misformed, misshapen," from deformare (see deform).

Wiktionary
deformity

n. 1 The state of being deformed. 2 Something which is deformed.

WordNet
deformity

  1. n. an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed [syn: malformation, misshapenness]

  2. an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn: disfigurement, disfiguration]

Wikipedia
Deformity

A deformity, dysmorphism, or dysmorphic feature is a major abnormality in the shape of a body part or organ compared to the normal shape of that part.

Usage examples of "deformity".

There was the dead white shape of Mycelium masses, the grotesqueness of Agaricus, the deformity of Deadly Amanita and of Morel.

Hospital, the tract of modern deformity, cleft by a gulf of railway, which spreads between Clerkenwell Road and Charterhouse Street.

Gilwyn felt his bent toes reach the leather sole, then noticed it was curved to match his deformity.

It is most frequently due to some deformity or diseased condition of the generative organs of the female.

Prompt radiation, superstellar temperatures, electromagnetic pulse, thermal pulse, blast overpressure, fallout, disease, loss of immunity, cold, dark, contamination, inherited deformity, ozone depletion: with what hysterical ferocity, with what farcical disproportion, do nuclear weapons loathe human life.

Genu valgum and genu varum are ordinary deformities and quite common in all classes.

If a man has fallen in love with a sweet, enchanting face, and succeeds in lifting the veil of the sanctuary only to find deformities there, still the face wins the day, atones for all, and the sacrifice is consummated.

Inbreeding is common in Appalachia, as are genetic deformities, but Nurse Rosalee noticed nothing unusual about me.

On the other hand, our modern enquirers, though they also talk much of the beauty of virtue, and deformity of vice, yet have commonly endeavoured to account for these distinctions by metaphysical reasonings, and by deductions from the most abstract principles of the understanding.

Two squinting eyes might be beautiful, but certainly not so beautiful as if they did not squint, for whatever beauty they had could not proceed from their deformity.

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Why did he gift them with these deformities, why not merely with old-fashioned spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or retardation or fetal alcohol syndrome?

We know now that most birth deformities result from the consanguinity of the parents.

I should have no difficulty in passing over a deformity which, in reality, is only laughable.

The Instrumentality knows and guards our world and all the other worlds of mankind against the deformity which has become Arachosia.