deformity

Example Sentences

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Surgery is often required to prevent heel deformity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024

Growth plates are weaker than the surrounding muscles and bones and prone to injury that can lead to either reversible changes or permanent deformity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

I'm thinking of the anecdote in your book where Alfie was seemingly unaware of her own deformity while flapping around with her partially formed feathers.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023

She warned me the mask might conceal anything: a deformity, advancing age, the face of a known bandit.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine