MEANING
An abnormal shape or structure arising during development.
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- congenital malformation
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The scan revealed a skeletal malformation.
A malformation twisted the creature’s jaw.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular malformation; plural malformations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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