noun
deformity
an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
In a sentence
Six example sentences with deformity, each labelled with its topic.
Braces worn through adolescence corrected the spinal deformity, and she now runs marathons without any pain at all.
Medicine
Renaissance sculptors rarely showed a deformity, preferring idealised limbs that no living model in Florence actually possessed.
Art
Frogs downstream from the plant showed limb deformities, and the survey team traced the cause to runoff.
Environment
Historians long dismissed the king's spinal deformity as propaganda, until his skeleton was found under a car park.
History
Hugo's bell ringer is defined by his deformity in the eyes of Paris, yet the novel gives him its warmest heart.
Literature
Zebrafish embryos with a fin deformity help geneticists trace which gene switches on at the wrong moment.
Science
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