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teratology

teratology noun: the study of congenital malformations, their development, and people with them.

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
    • Despite being productive in embodying and critiquing human problems, however, the incorporation of the cyborg into teratology overlooks one important aspect that distinguishes this cybernetic creature from the rest of the monster phylum: we are able to choose how to fabricate and use the cyborg.2010, Dongshin Yi, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic, page 7

teratology meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

teratology in Tamil

விந்தை உரு பிறப்பியல், சீர்கேட்டியல், கருஊன இயல், பூதப்பிறவியியல்

teratology in Indonesian

(medicine) study of congenital malformations
teratologi

Examples of teratology in a sentence

  • In this way, this analysis has aimed at expanding gaga feminism by undertaking a critical teratology, that is, of course, the study of monsters2014, Theresa L. Geller, Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture, page 226:
  • Miranda Francus notes that in the West, the image of the fecund female has often been associated with monstrosity: 'misogyny and teratology have always met in the image of the maternal monster'.2014, Maria Beville, The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film, page 76:

Forms of teratology

pluralteratologies

Origin of teratology

From terato- + -logy, from Ancient Greek τέρας (téras, “monster”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”).

Words formed from teratology

Questions about teratology

What does teratology mean?
Teratology means the study of congenital malformations, their development, and people with them.
What is teratology in Tamil?
Teratology in Tamil is விந்தை உரு பிறப்பியல், சீர்கேட்டியல், கருஊன இயல். See Teratology meaning in Tamil.
How do you use teratology in a sentence?
In this way, this analysis has aimed at expanding gaga feminism by undertaking a critical teratology, that is, of course, the study of monsters
What part of speech is teratology?
Teratology is a noun.
What is the plural of teratology?
The plural of teratology is teratologies.

Words near teratology in the dictionary

  1. teratological
  2. teratologically
  3. teratologies
  4. teratologist
  5. teratologists
  6. teratology
  7. teratoma
  8. teratomas
  9. teratomata
  10. teratomatous
  11. teraton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teratology (page history and authors); teratology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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