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UK
/mˌælfˈɔːmd/
]
[ US /ˌmæɫˈfɔɹmd/ ]
[ US /ˌmæɫˈfɔɹmd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
a limp caused by a malformed foot
his poor distorted limbs
an ill-shapen vase
deformed thalidomide babies
misshapen old fingers
his poor distorted limbs
How To Use malformed In A Sentence
- More rarely, the tubes have been malformed from birth.
- Not surprisingly, offspring from clutches with no malformed young survived significantly better than offspring from clutches in which young were malformed.
- The mitral and pulmonic valves may be malformed as well.
- The disease rubella can cause pregnant women to have malformed babies.
- In this way, transient and malformed abdominal waveform shapes were definitely excluded.
- In malformed flowers of _Digitalis_ the change from axile to parietal placentation may often be seen. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- If this file is missing, malformed, or misnamed, the widget will not load.
- Nearly all poskim, however, even those who forbid genetic testing via amniocentesis or chorionic villi testing, lest the parents opt to abort a congenitally malformed fetus, allow pre-embryo screening. Reproductive Technology, New (NRT).
- Their skulls are very small and their brains undeveloped and malformed.
- Sometimes the wavelets did the kneading and rolling so clumsily that the nodule was malformed, but the majority were singularly symmetrical, evidencing nice adjustment between the degree of adhesiveness of the “pug” and the applied force of the wave. My Tropic Isle