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TERATOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does teratology mean?
• TERATOLOGY (noun)
The noun TERATOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism
Familiarity information: TERATOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("teratology" is a kind of...):
embryology (the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms)
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