Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or causing malformations of an embryo or fetus.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Producing monsters; of or pertaining to teratogeny.
Wiktionary
- adj. teratology Of, relating to, malformations or defects to an embryo or foetus.
- adj. teratology Causing malformations or defects to an embryo or foetus.
- n. A teratogenic agent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to substances or agents that can interfere with normal embryonic development
Etymologies
- terato- + -genic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What the word teratogenic means (teratology is the study of abnormalities in physical development).”
“But the World Health Organization reports that "propoxur is not considered mutagenic, embryotoxic, or teratogenic WHO, 2003.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite?
“Depending on the timing, the severity of the exposure, and the mother's genetic defenses, such exposures can be lethal, teratogenic (cause anomalies, growth retardation) have effects that aren't apparent until a child is older, or have no effects.”
“Just as the Guichen people are justly concerned about habitat destruction caused by oil drilling in ANWAR effecting their sole food source (caribou) The Cree are hit very hard by Oil Shale mining, Cancer rates and birth defects are up as are other teratogenic effects on inhabitants.”
“German measles early in the pregnancy, exposure to radiation and teratogenic medications.”
“The end product is a concentrated mass of heavy metals and carcinogenic, teratogenic, and hormone-disrupting chemicals, replete with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.”
Andrew Kimbrell: The Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?
“The irony is that the teratogenic properties that caused the birth defects are the same properties that made it an effective cancer treatment.”
“It is correct that thalidomide was not rapidly approved and its teratogenic properties became evident in the meantime.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Political Ignorance and the Case Against Paternalistic Regulation:
“In the end, Judge Edmund Sweeney found that DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to manDDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man.”
“Most tragically, because our young people have received no official warning from U. S health agencies, they unknowingly micro-cook their sperm, ova and fetuses with a radiation known to be just as mutagenic and teratogenic as gamma wave radiation from nuclear fallout.”
Gerneration X'd out: An end to the human race as we know it?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teratogenic’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Drugs
Takes 12-15 years and $800 million to bring a drug to the market. For every 10,000 compounds that go through animal studies, 10 will go to human trials (3 phases) to get 1 to the market.
In g...ephedrine, penicillin, librium, tetracycline, xenobiotic, teratogenic, labile sites, cholinergic, prostaglandin, patient compliance, GABA, barbiturates and 72 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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monsters
kraken, Godzilla, chimera, golem, Nachtzehrer, draug, mjölkhare, teratogenic, אמת, מת, bakeneko, pope lick monster and 11 more...
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While reading
littoral, manichean, omerta, opprobrium, discomfit, betise, tittle, pellucid, chiffonier, hagiographic, essoin, raiment and 35 more...
Tweets
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danama "causing the formation of monsters," 1879, from teratogeny (1857), from comb. form of Greek teras (genitive teratos) "marvel, monster" + -genic, producing, forming
– online etymology dictionary
Feb 19, 2013