malformation

IPA: mæɫfɔrmˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "malformation" in Sentences

Living with a Chiari malformation is painful and exhausting.
… [T] his rare genetic malformation is called a mirror hand.
He had a congenital arteriovenous malformation, which is a mass of arteries/blood vessels that connect without any capillaries.
This malformation is characterized by myelomeningocele and posterior fossa abnormalities, which have distinct sonographic appearances (the so-called “lemon” and “banana” signs).
Identified almost a century ago, the Arnold-Chiari malformation occurs when the bottom of the brain herniates, or protrudes, through the hole in the skull where the spinal cord descends.
"The diagnosis is what is called a Moyamoya disease or malformation, which is just a vascular malformation of the brain," said Dr. Zulma Tovar Spinoza, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Upstate Medical Center.
"To my knowledge, it is the only record of a vertebrate fossil showing that kind of malformation," Dr Buffetaut, director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France told BBC
January 18th, 2010 at 6: 47 pm pluege says: this statement ought to really raise chavez in the eyes of other vermin scum like limbaugh and beck. the indecency of these cretinous sub-humanoid flotsam of protozoan malformation is startling no matter how common their inhuman malfeasance gets.