Sentence examples for a malformation from inspiring English sources

One has a malformation of the spine; the others two were born with only one arm.

My sternum projected beyond my ribs when I was young, a malformation called a pigeon breast.

"If I put the patient on valproate as a first choice and the baby has cognitive impairment or a malformation, I can't repair that".

Dysplasia, malformation of a bodily structure or tissue; the term most commonly denotes a malformation of bone.

Eleven of these survivors had a congenital anomaly such as a malformation of the heart or a facial cleft.

A five-hour surgery showed that he did not have a spinal tumor, as feared, but "a malformation of blood vessels" in his cervical spine that bled, Dr. Wirkowski said in an e-mail message.

Rusty Jennings, a fetal surgeon at the hospital, told me that hundreds of babies are born each year with a malformation at the base of the bladder which results in kidney failure.

We regret that the teratogenic [capable of resulting in a malformation of an embryo] potential of thalidomide could not be detected by the tests that we and others carried out before it was marketed".

Under Colombian law, abortion is legal for women whose foetuses show a malformation, if the pregnancy was a result of rape or if the woman's health is in danger.

Dr. Mitchell said there was some evidence that pseudoephedrine, found in herbal cold preparations, might cause gastroschisis, a rare birth defect that involves a malformation of the gastrointestinal tract.

We regret that the teratogenic [capacity to result in a malformation of an embryo] potential of thalidomide could not be detected by the tests that we and others carried out before it was marketed".