deformity

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In the journal of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Centre, she found a report called “Congenital Limb Deformity in a Red Fox.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2017

For more on the subject, read Senses of Touch: Human Dignity and Deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin, a philosophical and art-historical study of the human hand.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2013

Deformity has been brought into beauty’s fold, a catalyst for justice rather than an affront to it.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2012

Because of Mr. Ebers’s contributions and fund-raising, the hospital now has the Ebers Center for Foot Deformity.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011

Deformity, or the part being “out of drawing” in comparison with the normal side, varies with the site and direction of the break, and depends upon the degree of displacement of the fragments.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander