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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
malformation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congenital
▪ It was the only health board with a well organised congenital malformation register.
▪ Special preconceptual care designed to reduce the incidence of congenital malformation is also examined from this point of view.
▪ Infants with haemolytic disease or with major congenital malformations were excluded from analysis.
▪ Elevated levels of homocysteine have also been associated with congenital malformations, miscarriages and low weight of babies at birth.
▪ We have strong reservations about the use of tranquilizing drugs for the parents of a baby with a congenital malformation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a malformation of the brain
▪ organ malformation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another factor that needs to be considered when policy is formulated is that lethal malformation will not always be diagnosed before delivery.
▪ Brain tumors or large arteriovenous malformations can occasionally cause unilateral head or facial pain.
▪ Clearly it was no rare malformation.
▪ He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations.
▪ Special preconceptual care designed to reduce the incidence of congenital malformation is also examined from this point of view.
▪ The pathological features of Dieulafoy's vascular malformation are controversial.
▪ This has been shown to reduce significantly the incidence of certain malformations in infants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malformation

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malformation

also mal-formation, 1731, from mal- + formation.

Wiktionary
malformation

n. 1 An abnormal formation. 2 (context teratology English) An abnormal developmental feature of offspring.

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WordNet
malformation

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

  2. something abnormal or anomalous [syn: miscreation]

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Usage examples of "malformation".

The committee charged with carrying out the program issued instructions to all Reich health agencies to register children born with congenital deformities, including idiocy, Mongolism, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, missing limbs, malformation of the head, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, and other congenital diseases.

Retention of the menses may result from malformation of the vaginal canal, which sometimes terminates before it reaches the womb, being simply a short, closed sac.

He found that this anomaly was caused by a congenital malformation and remarkable development of the infraorbital ridge of the maxillary bone.

Batz, on the coast of France, where Voisin found five marriages of first cousins and thirty-one of second cousins, without a single case of mental defect, congenital deafness, albinism, retinitis pigmentosa or malformation?

But, for the record, let me state quite clearly that although for various reasons I will probably never put quite the same emphasis on F-0 that Grof does, I nevertheless endorse entirely his general conclusions about the nature, the subphases, the formations and malformations, the pathologies, and the possible types of influence of this crucial fulcrum.

Some women, he knew, wanted to keep their babies in spite of malformations and disfigurements, but most were relieved to dispose of them as quickly and quietly as possible.

It was like a skull seen in a dream, undeniably human, yet with disturbing distortions and malformations of contour and outline.

That's what accounts for the bizarre malformations to his skeletal structure.

Thats what accounts for the bizarre malformations to his skeletal structure.

Since Sickert's malformation required three surgeries, his problem must not have been "trifling.