He watched, riveted, as doctors did extensive reconstructive surgery on patients with congenital deformities, burns and injured limbs.
We know, for instance, that we could prevent a greater proportion of congenital deformities of the spine and heart by fortifying our flour with folic acid.
In Ghana he was appalled at what he saw: "There were lots of congenital deformities, cleft palates, twisted limbs, burns, tropical ulcers.
The plastics unit, under the periodic supervision of Gillies, expanded to treat dental and maxillofacial problems, and congenital deformities in children.
Though these are not monsters in the traditional sense but the remains of people with real congenital deformities, they remind us that many imaginary monsters are merely variants on nature's own carelessness and cruelty.
Beyond his service to the casualty commission, Dr. Miller made a wide study of childhood cancer causes, often specializing in the connections between congenital deformities and the development of certain cancers.
The desirable, narrow jawline can be achieved by shaving the mandible using oscillating saws or by breaking and then realigning both jaws, an operation that originated as a treatment for severe congenital deformities.
Lewis's work on the fruit fly helped to explain mechanisms of general biological development, such as the causes of congenital deformities, in humans and other higher organisms.
This is a fundamentally mild affliction, and the only cause for anxiety is its proclivity to induce congenital deformities if a pregnant woman should acquire the disease.
"God has never been very kind to the city of Halabja, and we have no reason to expect any change," said Dr. Serwer Arif, a 32-year-old surgeon working at the Swedish-built Qandil hospital, which handles some of the cancers, respiratory illnesses and congenital deformities that people here attribute to the poison gas attacks.
When the CRISPR technology first came to light, governments and scientists everywhere assured the public that it would be employed only selectively, to fight disease and to rectify congenital deformities, editing out the mutated BRCA1 gene that predisposes women to breast cancer, for instance, or eliminating the ability of the Anopheles mosquito to carry the parasite that transmits malaria.
