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agenesis
[ey-jen-uh-sis]
noun
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
Other 51Թ Forms
- agenetic adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
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.
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.
The medical name for my disability is sacral agenesis.
She has congenital sacral agenesis, meaning she was born with no sacrum.
Due to his missing corpus callosum, Ellis has a disorder called “agenesis of the corpus callosum.”
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