teratoid
English
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[edit]teratoid (comparative more teratoid, superlative most teratoid)
- (genetics, medicine) Monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 486:
- Lucien, staring goggle-eyed at the only brother he’s ever had, is standing very still, face still unwittingly teratoid, the broom at an angle in his hand, the Colt dangling at his side, […]
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[edit]monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development
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Noun
[edit]teratoid (plural teratoids)
- (medicine) An abnormal tumor similar to a teratoma.
- 1903, Encyclopaedia Medica[1], volume 13, page 138:
- In each of these divisions there are subdivisions, according as the parasite consists of a more or less recognisable fœtus, or only of a mass of fœtal tissue (teratomata, teratoids, dermoids).
- 2005, Richard A. Bordow, Andrew L. Ries, Timothy A. Morris, Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine[2], 6th edition, page 610:
- They can be divided into dermoids (only an epithelial layer present) and teratoids (all three germ layers present).
- (literature) A mutant.
- 2002, Lance Olsen, “Omniphage: Rock 'n' Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction”, in Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation[3], →ISBN, page 51:
- I wanted to explore how at the launch of a new millennium many people were beginning to feel like teratoids in the global commodity exchange.
- 2002, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, I Am a Cat, volume 2, translation of original by Natsume Soseki, →ISBN, page 345:
- The objects floating in the bath and lazing about on the bathroom's floor are all monsters, teratoids dehumanized by the husking of their clothes.