0 the situation in which a part of the body has not developed in the normal way or with the normal shape --
1 a part of the body that has not developed in the usual way or with the normal shape: --
Both personhood and its deformities or pathologies are to be understood in these terms, above all in the circumstances of psychic trauma engendered by colonialism.
Ongoing disease activity invariably induces bone and joint deformities.
Natural lotteries are the wide range of talents, abilities, disabilities, deformities, and illnesses among individuals.
There were fixed flexion deformities of the interphalangeal joints of both thumbs and fifth fingers, and webbing between each thumb and the forefinger.
Other congenital abnormalities (including deformities such as thalidomide damage).
In older people, other conditions such as corns, callus formation, deformities and bunions did not appear to increase with age.
Patients whose medical histories or physical examinations suggested chronic illness, chest deformities, cardiac disease or respiratory disease were excluded.
Taken in small quantity, even over a short period of time, it can lead to gross deformities in offspring.
