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1Medicine Biology The scientific study of congenital abnormalities and abnormal formations.
‘he has made a long study of teratology’
count nounfigurative ‘the teratologies of human corruption’
‘It is also forging links with medically oriented areas of developmental biology such as teratology and endocrine disruption.’
‘Rejecting the notion that freaks were sports of nature, Saint - Hilaire argued that teratology (the medical study of congenital monstrosity) should link normal and abnormal development.’
‘Genomics is unlikely to be of use in teratology studies because of the rapid rate of change in the developing organism.’
2Mythology relating to fantastic creatures and monsters.