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are malformed
adjective
Not formed correctly; misshapen; deformed.
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To track down these mutated genes, scientists are studying children and adults whose brains are malformed.
Among the newborn young and embryos of man and most other species of animals are found occasional individuals who are malformed in whole or in part.
The British novelist Margot Livesey, a shrewd diagnostician of Western mini-maladies, writes of two talented young women whose lives are malformed by what you might call emotional scurvy.
Prions are malformed versions of a protein found in the membranes of nerve cells, and they have the ability to induce normal molecules of this protein to change shape into the malformed version.
The same trick could be applied to the other tests too.Even so, the most puzzling (and fundamental) question remains: How are malformed prion proteins able to subvert their healthy brothers and sisters?
Robert B. Eckhardt, a professor of developmental genetics at Pennsylvania State University who has argued that the Flores specimens are malformed humans, said in an interview that the Palau discovery was "most important and timely" in the debate and is "strong support from an independent source" that the small-bodied individuals are somehow abnormal, not a separate species.
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Gregory thinks he is "malformed...by decades of complicity in the exploitative master-servant nexus".
It allows abortions up to 90 days from conception, and afterward if the fetus is malformed.
One reason cited for the sheep's departure was that every one of them was malformed by generations of inbreeding.
It grows in the brain of the foetus and destroys brain structures so the developing brain is malformed – small – that's the cause of the microcephaly".
The mouth is malformed because of the exaggerated facial structure, making it difficult for the cats to eat because the teeth are misaligned and causing them to drool.
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