Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun teratogenesis

1 sense of teratogenesis

Sense 1
teratogenesis -- (the development of defects in an embryo)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")