teratology

The biological study of birth defects.

Narration of what is marvelous or prodigious; exaggeration in description.

In anat., zoöl., and botany, the science of animal or vegetable monstrosities; that department of biology which treats of malformations, or monstrous or abnormal growths, in the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

Affectation of sublimity; bombast.