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malconformation

malconformation noun: imperfect, disproportionate, or defective formation, usually of body parts.

Noun

malconformation (plural malconformations)

  1. (archaic) Imperfect, disproportionate, or defective formation, usually of body parts.
    • Weakly and irritable, hysterical, passionate, and especially voluptuous women of a plethoric habit, are most liable to miscarriage; though it may also happen from a general defective constitution, or rather from a malconformation of the sexual organs.1802, Domestic Encyclopædia, Abortion
    • A sensitive person feels, and an imaginative one exaggerates any defect—and Lord Byron was both. His lameness originating, as it did, in an unsightly malconformation, was a perpetual source of bitterness to him.1841, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Female Portrait Gallery

Forms of malconformation

pluralmalconformations

Origin of malconformation

From mal- + conformation.

Questions about malconformation

What does malconformation mean?
Malconformation means imperfect, disproportionate, or defective formation, usually of body parts.
What part of speech is malconformation?
Malconformation is a noun.
What is the plural of malconformation?
The plural of malconformation is malconformations.

Words near malconformation in the dictionary

  1. Malcomsons
  2. malconceived
  3. malcondition
  4. malconditions
  5. malconduct
  6. malconformation
  7. malconformations
  8. malconstruction
  9. malconstructions
  10. malcontent
  11. malcontented

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