Associations to the word «Teratology»

Wiktionary

TERATOLOGY, noun. (medicine) The study of teratogenesis, congenital malformations or grossly deformed individuals.
TERATOLOGY, noun. (toxicology) The study of the mechanisms, teratogenic agents, or teratogens, in bringing about malformations.
TERATOLOGY, noun. (obsolete) Affectation of sublimity; bombast.

Dictionary definition

TERATOLOGY, noun. The branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery