embryopathyn.
/ˌɛmbrɪˈɒpəθi/, U.S. /ˌɛmbriˈɑpəθi/ Medicine.
Malformation or disease affecting an embryo or fetus; an instance of this.
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monstera1400
scarth?a1513
mooncalfa1616
pretergeneration1640
misbirth1648
terata1902
embryopathy1917
thalidomide baby1962
thalidomide child1971
1917 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 11 293 They should also indicate that visceral aplasia or other defect resultant from embryopathy is present and may render such individual unduly susceptible to infectious influences.
1955 Lancet 24 Sept. 629/1 In animals any experimental method of producing diabetes in the mother..may produce the same embryopathy.
1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 1238/1 Rubella embryopathy is well recognised.
2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Jan. 3 There's something that's known as Accutane embryopathy... Exposed fetuses..often have a pattern of several major malformations.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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