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TERATOGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does teratogenesis mean?
• TERATOGENESIS (noun)
The noun TERATOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. the development of defects in an embryo
Familiarity information: TERATOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The development of defects in an embryo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("teratogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Context examples
Strain widely used in carcinogenesis and teratogenesis studies.
(BDIX, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
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