TERATOLOGY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

embryology (the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms)

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