teratology

IPA: tɛrʌtˈɔɫʌdʒi

(medicine) The study of congenital malformations, their development, and people with them.
(toxicology) The study of the mechanisms, teratogenic agents, or teratogens, in bringing about malformations.
The study or cataloging of monsters.

Examples of "teratology" in Sentences

She claims to be a student of teratology, which she explains as the science of monsters.
MOOS: He finally coughed out the word teratology (ph) correctly, a spelling bee sure can sting.
What the word teratogenic means (teratology is the study of abnormalities in physical development).
Chief FDA Scientist, Dr. Thomas Xavier Collins, investigated two mice teratology (birth defects) studies.
In addition, the trainee will see patients who have questions regarding prenatal diagnosis and teratology.
Today, as Blumberg describes, teratology as a science has come to mean the study of congenital malformations.
Lahzars and calendars are very much working against such norms, and teratology (monster-hunting) is probably one of the few areas where a woman can achieve as much notoriety as a man (if she was not born with status already).
I decide to put the question to Ken Jones, the doctor who defined fetal alcohol syndrome more than thirty-five years ago, and who is now chief of the teratology division in the department of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.
Now, in his recently published book Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us about Development and Evolution, Mark S. Blumberg takes us on a tour of real-life teratology, and how understanding abnormalities is casting new light on the relationship between the genetic and non-genetic forces that shape us all.