malformations

noun

Definition of malformationsnext
plural of malformation
1
as in deformities

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2
as in abnormalities

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  1. abnormalities
  2. mutations
  3. anomalies
Noun
  • Then they can be pushed forward to become healthy heart cells or mutations — or other abnormalities can be corrected.
    Dr. Marc Siegel Fox News, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The tools can be used to improve cyber defense capabilities and quickly detect threat abnormalities.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of abnormalities
Noun
  • The announcement comes about a week after genetic analysis of H5N1 bird flu viruses from the nation’s first severely ill patient revealed multiple mutations that could increase the virus’s ability to bind to human upper airway cells.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In another troubling finding, one of the mutations identified in the Louisiana patient also turned up in a viral sample taken from a teenager with a severe case of bird flu in British Columbia.
    Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of mutations
Noun
  • One model is programmed to seek out arbitrage opportunities based on pricing anomalies discerned by analyzing market data.
    Barnet Sherman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The first president to be born in a hospital was a man of many anomalies.
    Noah Eckstein, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of anomalies
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malformation

malformations

malformed

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