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agenesis
[ ey-jen-uh-sis ]
noun
Pathology.
- absence of or failed development of a body part.
- sterility; impotence; barrenness.
agenesis
/ ˌeɪdʒəˈnɛtɪk; eɪˈdʒɛnɪsɪs /
noun
- (of an animal or plant) imperfect development
- impotence or sterility
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Derived Forms
- agenetic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms
- ··Ա· [ey-j, uh, -, net, -ik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins
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Born with sacral agenesis, a physical condition that makes her body different, Jones is excluded from “easy beauty,” Kate Tuttle wrote in The New York Times.
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Cats Protection's senior field veterinary officer Fiona Brockbank said it appeared to be a case of agenesis, the failure of an organ to develop, which she and her colleagues had never seen before.
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The medical name for my disability is sacral agenesis.
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She has congenital sacral agenesis, meaning she was born with no sacrum.
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Due to his missing corpus callosum, Ellis has a disorder called “agenesis of the corpus callosum.”
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