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the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism
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The study of abnormal development. Particularly, it is the study of causes, mechanisms, and manifestations of abnormal development, whether genetically, gestationally, or postnatally induced, and whether expressed as lethality, malformation, growth retardation, or functional aberration. The issue of "abnormal development" is the problem here.
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The branch of embryology and pathology that deals with abnormal development and congenital malformations.
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| teratology |
The study of birth defects that are a result of genetic damage.
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Marco Frascari has made famous this 15c. theme of composition (Monsters of Architecture, 1991), which uses juxtaposition (parataxis) rather than subordination (hypotaxis) to create ambiguous (polysemic) conditions of meaning. Monstrosity has to do both with form that is 'unmediated' by a sense of constraining contextual order and with a semiotic condition that reveals secrets seen to come from outside the normative system of symbolic relations. ...
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