deformity

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It can cause ulcers or sores around the animal's mouth and face, difficulties swallowing and breathing, fever and lameness, foetal deformities and stillbirths.

From BBC

One girl with clubfoot, a congenital deformity, who was desperate for orthotic shoes.

From Seattle Times

Smithsonian anthropologists, who helped direct the study, found evidence of childhood diseases and congenital deformities.

From Washington Post

White tigers also experience reduced litter size and shorter average life spans, are prone to impaired vision, cardiac defects, serious spinal and facial deformities, and compromised immune systems.

From Scientific American

About 27% of 14th and 15th Century skeletons found in Cambridge digs had the minor but uncomfortable deformity.

From BBC