Definitions
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- noun The state of an
organism or anorganisation that did notdevelop in the "normal " way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus"). - noun Under the philosophy of
sustainable development, pooreconomic ,human orsocial development.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The diagnostic distinction can be difficult to make, particularly with ultrasound alone, but is critical because fetal ventriculomegaly from a destructive or maldevelopment process carries a poor prognosis.
Hydrocephalus 2010
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It is important to distinguish hydrocephalus from ventricular enlargement or ventriculomegaly, which can also be caused by brain destruction and morphological maldevelopment.
Hydrocephalus 2010
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That it's come in three waves: the first time it lasted 500 years, the next time, as "development" or maldevelopment, it lasted fifty years, and this phase has lasted just five.
The Global Campaign Against Biopiracy and Changing the Paradigm of Agriculture 1999
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We note that severe early maldevelopment due to such trauma as parent loss, faulty mothering, or illness in these years causes an arrest or regression, and what Mahler called symbiotic psychosis characterized by the refusal to surrender the magical thinking and omnipotence of toddlerhood.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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Follin 6.433 mentions a similar instance in a boy of twelve with complete epispadias, and Verneuil and Guerlin also record cases, both complicated with associate maldevelopment.
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Follin mentions a similar instance in a boy of twelve with complete epispadias, and Verneuil and Guerlin also record cases, both complicated with associate maldevelopment.
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The analysis of correlations between the expression pattern of the tested miRNAs and CP induced limb phenotypes implies that miRNAs regulating apoptosis may differ from each other with respect to their functional role in teratogenesis: some miRNAs act to protect embryos, whereas other miRNAs boost a teratogen-induced process of maldevelopment to induce embryonic death.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Keren Gueta 2010
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"It is cynically said that on the path of ` maldevelopment 'almost every step that we take seems to give rise to insurgency and political extremism which along with terrorism are supposed to be the three gravest threats to India's integrity and sovereignty," it said.
The Times of India 2010
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(FADS), the fetus may have been affected by a disrupting injury or unavoidable maldevelopment.
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(FADS), the fetus may have been affected by a disrupting injury or unavoidable maldevelopment.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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