TERATOGENESIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The development of defects in an embryo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("teratogenesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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