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Recent Examples of malformation
In the last seven years, researchers have linked this form of air pollution to fetal malformation, miscarriages, and stillbirths.
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Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Chiari malformation type 1 is a rare brain condition where the cerebellum, a brain area responsible for balance and posture, droops down slightly through a small hole in the skull called the foramen magnum.
—Ruairi MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2025
Often, the malformations are so severe that babies don't make it to birth.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 June 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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Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Chiari malformation type 1 is a rare brain condition where the cerebellum, a brain area responsible for balance and posture, droops down slightly through a small hole in the skull called the foramen magnum.
—Ruairi MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2025
Often, the malformations are so severe that babies don't make it to birth.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 June 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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According to court documents, responding firefighters at the shooting scene identified gunshot wounds to Barron on the center of his chest, both of his arms, his left leg beneath the knee, his buttocks, and a deformity below his right knee, above his lower left leg below the knee.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Services cover conditions such as brain tumors, spine deformities, and chronic neck and back pain.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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This signaled that the mutation was somewhere on the X chromosome, since females have two of those, and presumably one lacked the killer mutation.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Despite a clean mammogram and sonogram months earlier, results from a genetic test revealed that Martin had inherited the BRCA2 mutation – not from her mother, who is a breast cancer survivor herself, but from her father’s side of the family.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, the condition is a rare genetic disorder characterized by abnormalities of the skeletal muscles, including weakness and stiffness, abnormal bone development and joints that become fixed in bent or extended positions.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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But that abnormality was nothing compared to what the Minnesota Vikings (2-2) are currently experiencing.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The mutants were identified in the 1940s by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, who were working on the effects of radiation as part of the Manhattan Project.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Confirmed are the shapeshifting Mystique, the brutish Omega Red, at least one giant mutant-hunting Sentinel, and military organization the Reavers.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Sep. 2025
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National Taco Day landing on a Tuesday is no longer an anomaly, thanks to Taco Bell.—
Sabrina Weiss,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Statistical anomaly, then, or something deeper?—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Malformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformation. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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