From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Malformation \Mal'for*ma"tion\, noun [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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed [syn: {deformity}, {misshapenness}]
2: something abnormal or anomalous [syn: {miscreation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "malformation": absurdity, anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity, disfigurement, distortion, fantasticality, flatfoot, freakishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, harelip, humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, monstrousness, mutilation, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, quaintness, queerness, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness, swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, truncation, valgus, weirdness, wryneck
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