[syn: malformation, miscreation]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Malformation \Mal`for*ma"tion\, n. [Mal- + formation.]
Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or
wrong conformation or structure; -- often used of body parts
such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal
maturation.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
malformation
n 1: an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen
or malformed [syn: deformity, malformation,
misshapenness]
2: something abnormal or anomalous [syn: malformation,
miscreation]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "malformation":
absurdity, anticness, bizarreness, bizarrerie, bowlegs, camelback,
cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement,
deformation, deformity, disfigurement, distortion, fantasticality,
flatfoot, freakishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, harelip,
humpback, hunchback, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis,
malconformation, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity,
monstrousness, mutilation, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity,
quaintness, queerness, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness,
swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, truncation,
valgus, weirdness, wryneck