teratology

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Similar instances, which are well known to students of teratology, are the Hungarian sisters (Helen and Judith), the North

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  1. noun The biological study of birth defects.

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  • Further studies with larger samples and longer follow-up are needed to confirm these results. american-indian at-risk-youth capacity-building cbpr educational-technology environmental-health-education k-12 narrative obesogens partnerhip pregnancy prescriptions science-communication scientific-method storytelling teratology CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Translating scientific discoveries into public health action: how can schools of public health move us forward? american-indian at-risk-youth cancer capacity-building cbpr dissemination ecogenetics educational-technology environmental-health environmental-health-education environmental-studies ethics evaluation genetics k-12 knowledge-to-action narrative new-media obesogens partnerhip pesticides pregnancy prescriptions privacy qualitative-research research-agenda research-methods research-translation science-communication science-education scientific-method social-networking storytelling teratology CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It also can lead women and their families and health care providers to other knowledgeable resources and teratology professionals that specialize in birth defects caused by exposures during pregnancy. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Scarcely a botanist of any eminence since his time but has contributed his quota to the records of vegetable teratology, in proof of which the names of Humboldt, Robert Brown, the De Jussieus, the Saint Hilaires, of Moquin-Tandon, of Lindley, and many others, not to mention botanists still living, may be cited. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • '[2 As it is impossible to frame any but a purely arbitrary definition of teratology or to trace the limits between variation and malformation, it may suffice to say that vegetable teratology comprises the history of the irregularities of growth and development in plants, and of the causes producing them. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
 

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  1. = French tératologie. from New Latin teratologia, from Greek τερατολογία, a telling of marvels or prodigies, from τέρας (τερατ-), a sign, marvel, prodigy, monster, + -λογία, from λέγειν, say, fell (see -ology).
 

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/tɛrəˈtɑlədʒi/
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