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Definition of Monsters
1. monster [n] - See also: monster
Medical Definition of Monsters
1. A foetus or infant with such pronounced developmental anomalies as to be grotesque and usually nonviable. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monsters
Literary usage of Monsters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"-Parasitic monsters. -monsters with a single body and double lower extremities.
... CLASS I.—Triple monsters.—Haller and Meckel were of the opinion that no ..."
2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"There are monsters through defect. But, if a generally well-made and handsome
... THE definition of monsters is more difficult than is generally imagined. ..."
3. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Modern monsters. THERE is a set of imaginary beings which seem to have been the
successors of the " Gorgons, Hydras, ..."
4. An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut (1912)
"The imaginary monsters of pagan mythology (ch. 3. 28-39). 4. Transformations (ch.
4). EXTRACTS Chapter 1. On man and his parts. 4. ..."
5. The Pantheon: Or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome. For the by William Godwin (1814)
"ONE branch of the accounts of the Grecian mythology is monsters: the Grecian
mythology, with its thirty thousand Gods, was complete in the time of Homer and ..."
6. Medical lexicon by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"As a medico-legni question, monsters, if capable of action as individuals, have
the same rights as other persons. monsters, COMPOUND, see Unitaire—m. ..."
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