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• s  so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
  a limp caused by a malformed foot

• In Belgium, a young couple and their doctor were in jail, awaiting trial on a charge that they murdered a malformed thalidomide baby with an overdose of another sleep-inducing drug.
• It has decided in favor of the families of three childrenone with a malformed spine, two born with only one armwhose lawyers argued that if doctors had detected the fetuses .
• That the first child conceived by a woman is more apt to be malformed, than her subsequent children is a belief common among parents.

• deformed
• distorted
• ill-shapen
• misshapen

News & Articles

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• Research: Nail zone stem cells, tissue regrow fingertips
  NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- Stem cells under the base of a fingernail could one day be used to treat malformed nails or possibly amputated limbs, research by New York University suggests.
  June 13, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Susan Lindquist in PressZoom (press release)
  (PressZoom) - "It's been difficult to understand why this prion protein, which when malformed subjects us to this horrible disease, is so abundant in our brains in the first place," says Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist, who is also a professor...
• Allan Temko in San Francisco Chronicle
  ...pure architectural terms there are equally bad buildings nearby from the late 1980s, such as the 27-story comedy of errors at 100 First St. a few blocks east that Temko described as "misbegotten from the muddled base and malformed...