TERAS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: terata

Meaning:

(medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus

Synonyms:

monster; teras

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("teras" is a kind of...):

fetus; foetus (an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal)

Meronyms (parts of "teras"):

acardia (congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters))

acephalia; acephalism; acephaly (absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters))

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)