| teratophobia |
The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. ...
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| teratogen |
A substance that produces defects in a fetus.
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| teratogen |
Any environmental substance or disease (alcohol, caffeine, radiation, caustic chemicals, chicken pox, AIDS) that can have an adverse effect on a fetus during prenatal development.
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| teratoma |
a tumor composed of cells not normally found in the part of the body when the tumor occurred
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| teratogen |
An agent that causes congenital malformations in embryos.
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