Definition of Teratological

1. a. Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

Definition of Teratological

1. Adjective. (teratology) Of or relating to teratology. ¹

2. Adjective. (teratology) Of abnormal growth or structure of a fetus or embryo. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Teratological

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Teratological

1. Pertaining to teratology. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Teratological

teratogen
teratogeneses
teratogenetic
teratogenic
teratogenically
teratogenicities
teratogenics
teratogens
teratogeny
teratoid
teratoid tumour
teratoids
teratological (current term)
teratologically
teratologies
teratologist
teratologists
teratoma
teratoma orbitae
teratomas
teratomata
teratomatous
teratomatous cyst
teraton
teratons

Literary usage of Teratological

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report (1900)
"PRELIMINARY NOTES ON teratological FORMS OF TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM (MX.) SALISB. ... teratological forms of this plant are very common in Michigan, ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"teratological phenomena. teratological phenomena, which are not infrequent, especially in cultivated Cucurbitaceae, must be interpreted with care. ..."

3. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1915)
"(b) teratological and Pathological Peculiarities are really only unusual or abnormal anatomical characters, but of such interest and importance as to ..."

4. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1916)
"(b) teratological and Pathological Peculiarities are really only unusual or abnormal anatomical characters, but of such interest and importance as to ..."

5. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1916)
"(b) teratological and Pathological Peculiarities are really only unusual or abnormal anatomical characters, but of such interest and importance as to ..."

6. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Normal transitions from a stamen to a pistil could not, in the nature of the case, be expected. 308. teratological Transitions and Changes. ..."

7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"... teratological LITERATURE. By BERTRAM CA WINDLE, MD, Sc.D., F.RS., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Birmingham. [The author of this Report will ..."

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