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Recent Examples of malformation
One rare disease of particular interest for my lab is cerebral cavernous malformation, or CCM.
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Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Drake White had a stroke while performing on stage in 2019 and was later diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), according to his biography on his website.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Examples include a Brazilian boy who had his pancreatic malformation disappear in 2013.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
That one, announced last month, has twoXAR working with the Department of Dermatology at Stanford’s School of Medicine to identify drug candidates targeting lymphatic malformation, epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), and other rare disorders.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Drake White had a stroke while performing on stage in 2019 and was later diagnosed with an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), according to his biography on his website.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Examples include a Brazilian boy who had his pancreatic malformation disappear in 2013.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
That one, announced last month, has twoXAR working with the Department of Dermatology at Stanford’s School of Medicine to identify drug candidates targeting lymphatic malformation, epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), and other rare disorders.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malformation
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Ancient mosaics have been restored into laughable deformities of their previous selves.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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The body tries to repair the damage, but healing is often slow and incomplete, leaving the bone weakened and vulnerable to collapse or deformity — changes that can lead to lasting hip problems.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Susannah was diagnosed with a mutation in her KIF1A gene.—
Leanne Miller,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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In August, global health authorities noticed that a mutation of an influenza virus called ‘Subclade K’ was spreading quickly in other countries.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the story, based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux, the brooding musical prodigy Phantom, who wears a mask to cover a facial disfigurement, haunts the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed with young soprano Christine Daaé.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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With her lawsuit, Ball is seeking damages for her injuries, pain and suffering, lost earnings, disfigurement, mental anguish and more, the complaint shows.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, other work has shown that people with psychopathy, which often aligns with immoral behavior, have abnormalities in their amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex regions that are directly connected by the uncinate fasciculus.—
Christopher M. Filley,
The Conversation,
3 Feb. 2026
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According to the National Library of Medicine, the rare congenital abnormality (also known as cardiac inversus, or dextrocardia with situs inversus) is a condition in which a person's heart and other vital internal organs are located on the opposite side of their body.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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In this trial, participants received a treatment that carried new genetic instructions into the brain to reduce production of and silence the mutant huntingtin protein.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Knaff had been fighting cancer since November 2022, when he was diagnosed with a grade 4 H3G34 mutant diffuse hemispheric glioma, or more simply put, glioblastoma.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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These incidents are not anomalies.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Foley is an anomaly in Massachusetts – a Republican appointee who is willing to shake things up and take on the entrenched power structure, and is transparent and accessible.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Malformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformation. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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