a condition in which a part of the body is not the normal shape because of injury, illness or because it has grown wrongly synonym malformation(身体的)畸形 Drugs taken during pregnancy may cause physical deformity in babies. 妊娠期服用的药物可能引起婴儿身体畸形。 The injury resulted in a deformity of the hip joint. 受伤导致髋关节畸形。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- severe
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French desformite, from Latin deformitas, from deformis ‘misshapen’.