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teratologies

teratologies is the plural of teratology.

Meaning of teratology

Noun

teratology (countable and uncountable, plural teratologies)

  1. The study of congenital malformations, their development, and people with them.
  2. The study of the mechanisms, teratogenic agents, or teratogens, in bringing about malformations.
  3. The study or cataloging of monsters.
    • ...I would identify a more recent and widespread tendency to remove evil from the realm of a properly human interpretation: what I call a postmodern teratology of the sublime.2001, Richard Kearney, The God who May be: A Hermeneutics of Religion, →ISBN, page 33

Questions about teratologies

What is teratologies the plural of?
Teratologies is the plural of teratology.

Words near teratologies in the dictionary

  1. teratoid
  2. teratoids
  3. teratologic
  4. teratological
  5. teratologically
  6. teratologies
  7. teratologist
  8. teratologists
  9. teratology
  10. teratoma
  11. teratomas

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