deformity
畸形,畸形率,畸形现象,畸形情况
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plural de·form·i·ties.
- : the quality or state of being deformed, disfigured, or misshapen.
- : Pathology. an abnormally formed part of the body.
- : a deformed person or thing.
- : hatefulness; ugliness.
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Examples
Smithsonian anthropologists, who helped direct the study, found evidence of childhood diseases and congenital deformities.
While the resulting pig embryos had severe muscle deformities as they developed, their hearts beat as normal.
As in the famed Victor Hugo novel upon which the Disney film is loosely based, the plot centers around a man whose physical deformity renders him a social pariah.
The bones unearthed in the parking lot revealed that Richard did indeed have a deformity.
Anyway, physical deformity was not the most serious charge the Tudors brought against Richard.
Maude was born with facial deformity and hence not considered the marrying type.
William Hay died in England; remarkable for his deformity, on which he wrote an essay.
Also, that which especially exasperates the man of Taste in the sight of Vice is its deformity and disproportion.
The connection, then, between the cranial deformity and some underlying nervous disturbance might be assumed.
As a public force he was no longer a human being at all—he was a deformity, a spectre conjured up to bring fright to the beholder.
Almost any deformity or abnormality these days is called mutantism.